* 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.

* Alexander I of Kakheti ( 1476 – 1511 ), King of Kakheti

* 1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.

Bartolomeo Ammannati ( 18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence.

* 1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician ( b. 1511 )

* 1481 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun ( d. 1511 )

* 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita ( d. 1592 )

* 1511 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg ( d. 1571 )

* 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect ( d. 1574 )

* 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.

# Margaret ( 29 September 1511 – 1577 ), married on 23 January 1530 George I, Duke of Pomerania and after his death in 1534 John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

During the reign of Kasym Khan ( 1511 – 1523 ), the Kazakh Khanate expanded considerably.

Between 1511 and 1523, Schwenckfeld served the Duchy of Liegnitz as an adviser to Duke Charles I ( 1511 – 1515 ), Duke George I ( 1515 – 1518 ), and Duke Frederick II ( 1518 – 1523 ).

* 1475 – Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey ( d. 1511 )

* 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.

One of the most influential works during this burgeoning period was Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, written between 1511 – 12 and published in 1532, after Machiavelli's death.

In short time, both Henry VIII, King of England ( 1509 – 47 ), and Maximilian I also joined the " Holy League of 1511.

The term was first used retrospectively by the Italian artist and critic Giorgio Vasari ( 1511 – 1574 ) in his book The Lives of the Artists ( published 1550 ).

* July 31 – Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain ( b. 1511 )

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

Servetus was probably born on 29 September 1511 in Villanueva de Sijena in Aragon, Spain.

Later non-Trinitarian teachers included: Abelard ( 1079 – 1142 ), who was accused of Sabellianism and forced into refuge in a monastery in France ; Michael Servetus ( 1511 – 1553 ), an eminent physician from Spain, sometimes cited as a motivating force of Unitarianism, who wrote, " There is no other person of God but Christ ... the entire Godhead of the Father is in him ", and was burned at the stake for heresy on October 27, 1553 ; Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ); and Presbyterian minister John Miller, author of Is God a Trinity?

Jamaica was a colony of Spain from 1511 until 1655, when Oliver Cromwell's Caribbean expedition, the Western Design, drove the Spanish from the island.

He married towards the end of 1485 an intimate friend of queen Isabella I of Spain, ( whence probably his preferment ), Isabel de Bobadilla y Peñalosa, deceased Madrid 1531, the daughter of Francisco de Bobadilla, probably deceased on the Atlantic Ocean, 1502, Governor since 21 May 1499, of the Island " La Española ", now divided in two parts: Haiti and the Republic of Santo Domingo and María, being the niece of powerful family of the Marchioness of Moya, province of Cuenca, and Marchioness of Peñalosa, Beatriz Fernández de Bobadilla, deceased at Madrid on 10 September 1511, married to Royal Accountant from Cuenca, Andrés de Cabrera, deceased also at Madrid, 4 October 1511, some 3 weeks later.

The new alliance rapidly grew to include not only Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, who abandoned any pretense of adhering to the League of Cambrai in hopes of seizing Navarre and Lombardy from Louis, but also Henry VIII of England ( who, having decided to use the occasion as an excuse to expand his holdings in northern France, concluded the Treaty of Westminster — a pledge of mutual aid against the French — with Ferdinand in November 1511 ).

According to the " Chronicles of the Indias ", which are kept in Seville, Spain, in February 1511, Agueybana's brother Güeybaná, better known as Agüeybaná II ( The Brave ), Urayoan, the Cacique of Añasco and some of their men drowned the Spanish soldier Diego Salcedo.

Luís de Velasco ( 1511 – July 31, 1564 ) was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century.

Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, Ashmole Bestiary | The Ashmole Bestiary, Folio 21r, England ( Peterborough?

About 1508, he married Margaret's niece, Anne Browne ( d. 1511 ), daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard Bearer of England 1485 and Lady Lucy Neville, daughter of the Marquess of Montagu.

In 1511, at the court of Henry VIII of England, a tournament was held in honour of Catherine of Aragon.

The scimitar proper was the Stradioti sabre, and the term was introduced into France by Philippe de Commines ( 1447 – 18 October 1511 ) as cimeterre, Italy ( especially the Venetian Republic who hired the stradioti as mercernaries ) as scimitarra, and England as cimeter or scimitar via the French and Italian terms.

In June 1497 he was prior of Pittenweem, received the rectory of Cottingham from King Henry VII of England in May 1501, was commendator of Kelso ( although he was unable to firmly establish his provision ), as well as the Keeper of Darnaway Castle, Chamberlain of Moray and Custumar North of the Spey in 1511.

Category: 1511 establishments in England

Sir Francis Weston ( 1511 – 17 May 1536 ) was a gentleman at the court of King Henry VIII of England.

Ammonio met Erasmus when the latter visited England in 1506 – 1507, and they renewed their friendship from 1509 – 1511 after Erasmus returned from a trip to Italy.

The word " bowls " occurs for the first time in the statute of 1511 in which Henry VIII confirmed previous enactments against unlawful games.

When Portugal conquered Malacca in 1511 and committed atrocities against the Malay Sultanate, the Chinese responded with violent force against Portugal.

On 1 October 1511 he was appointed papal legate of Bologna and the Romagna, and when the Florentine republic declared in favour of the schismatic Pisans, Julius II sent him against his native city at the head of the papal army.

There the couple resided until 1511, when her husband offered his sword to the League against the French.

Shortly after this, he campaigned against the nation of Triballians ( whom someone may call Serbians as well ) ..." or the much later Demetrios Chalkondyles ( 1423 – 1511 ), referring to an Islamized Christian noble: "...

In 1511, Agueybana's brother Güeybaná, better known as Agüeybaná II ( The Brave ), discovered that the Spaniards were not " gods " and this encouraged the Cacique to rebel against the invaders.

He was Captain General in the war with Guelders between 1511 and 1513, and fought with Maximilian of Austria against France until 1514, participating in the battle of Guinegate ( 1513 ).

For his zeal in defending the papal rights against the 1511 Council of Pisa, in a series of works which were condemned by the Sorbonne and publicly burnt by order of King Louis XII, he obtained the bishopric of Gaeta, and in 1517 Pope Leo X made him a cardinal and archbishop of Palermo.

Faithful to the traditions of the Dominicans, he appears in 1511 as a supporter of the pope against the claims of the Council of Pisa called by dissident cardinals to punish Pope Julius II, composing in defense of his position the Tractatus de Comparatione auctoritatis Papæ et conciliorum ad invicem.

Obviating Kendall-Smith's argument that any participation in the war effort was unlawful on the basis of an illegal invasion, Bayliss asserted that British forces had full justification under UN resolutions 1511 and 1546 to be in Iraq at the time the charges were filed against Kendall-Smith in June and July, 2005.

But the abbots refused to submit and even in 1511 carried on war against the archbishop.

He enlisted in the service of Ramon de Cardona viceroy of Naples and returned to Italy upon hearing of a new war against France in 1511.

In rebellion against Julius II, he reentered Bologna in 1511 with the help of the French and ruled for only a year.

In 1510, he took command of the French forces fighting against Pope Julius II in the Romagna, for which he was excommunicated ; he failed to prevent Julius from capturing Bologna and Mirandola, and died of illness at Correggio during the 1511 campaign.

In 1511, as a result of an alliance brought about by Schiner, the Swiss made two unsuccessful campaigns against Milan.