In the year 1510, Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa (Feb 27), the Holy League defending the Italian states attacks the French-occupied Genoa (Jul), the first pocket watch is built, sunflowers are brought to Europe – and all these fine people were born:
1510 -xxxx Oda Nobuhide* warlord/ magistrate – Owari province, Japan (1551/41)
1510-0325 Guillaume Postel* linguist – Barenton, Normandy, France (1581/71)
1510-1006 John Caius* physician – Norwich, England (1573/62)
1511-1022 Erasmus Reinhold* astronomer/mathematician – Saalfeld, Electorate of Saxony (1553/41)
1512-xxxx Catherine Parr* Queen of England and Ireland as the last wife of King Henry VIII/stepmother of Elizabeth I – Blackfriars, London, England (1548/36)
1512-0410 James V of Scotland* – Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Scotland (1542/30)
In the year 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon becomes the first European definitely known to sight Florida, mistaking it for another island (Mar 27),
1513-xxxx John Knox* minister/theologian/founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland – Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (1572/c.58)
1514-0308 Amago Haruhisa* samurai/warlord – Japan (1561/46)
1515-0218 Valerius Cordus* physician/botanist/widely credited with developing a method for synthesizing ether – Hesse/eefurt, Germany (1544/29)
1516-0101 Margaret Leijonhufvud* Queen of Sweden by marriage to Gustav Vasa – Ekeberg Castle, Närke, Sweden (1551/35)
1516-0218 Mary I of England* Queen of England (1553-1558)/daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon/”Bloody Mary” – Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England (1558/48)
1517-0501 Svante Stensson Sture* count/statesman – Stockholm, Sweden (1567/50)
1517-0629 Rembert Dodoens* physician/botanist – Mechelen, Spanish Netherlands (1585/67)
1518-0202 Johann Hommel* German mathematician/astronomer – Memmingen, Bavaria (1562/44)
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Updated 8.11.2019
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