The Strait of Malacca (in red, in today’s Malaysia), the vital sea passage between China and India
In the year 1511, Portugal conquers Malacca - the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken by a Western nation - and gains control over the Strait of Malacca through which all sea-going trade between China and India is concentrated (Aug 15), the Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France (Nov), Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba, the first black slaves arrive in Colombia, the Spanish conquest of Yucatán begins - and all these fine people were born:
1511-xxxx Juan Pizarro* conquistador/accompanied his three brothers for the conquest of Peru, bringing down the Inca Empire in 1533 – Trujillo, Spanish Empire (1536/c.25)
1511-0101 Henry, Duke of Cornwall* the first living child of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon/his death affected the relationship between the English church and Roman Catholicism, giving rise to the English Reformation - Richmond Palace, Surrey, England (1511/52 days)
1511-0119 Adolf III of Schauenburg* German clergyman/the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne - (1556/45)
1511-0301 Piero Strozzi* Italian military leader - Florence, Republic of Florence (1558/47)
1511-0402 Ashikaga Yoshiharu* 足利 義晴 the twelfth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate - Kyoto (1550/39)
1511-0405 John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken* German noble (House of Nassau) - Saarbrücken (1574/63)
1511-0516 Andreas Hyperius* (b Gheeraerdts) Flemish theologian/reformer/teacher - Ypres, Flanders (1564/52)
1511-0527 Georg Ernst* German nobleman/military leader - Schleusingen, Thuringia (1583/72)
1511-0606 Jakob Schegk* German physician/polymath/philosopher - Schorndorf, Duchy of Württemberg (1587/75)
1511-0618 Bartolomeo Ammannati* architect/sculptor - Settignano, Republic of Florence (1592/80)
1511-0709 Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg* German noblewoman/queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian III of Denmark - Lauenburg Castle, Schleswig-Holstein (1571/60)
1511-0730 Giorgio Vasari* painter/ architect - Arezzo, Republic of Florence (1574/62)
1511-0824 Jean Bauhin* physician/ active in Basel - Amiens, Kingdom of France (1582/70)
1511-0928 Matsudaira Kiyoyasu* 松平 清康 the 7th lord over the Matsudaira clan during the Sengoku period/grandfather of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1535/24)
1511-0929 Michael Servetus* Spanish theologian/ physician/cartographer – Tudela, Kingdom of Navarre (1553/42) (birthyear possibly 1509)
1511-1022 Erasmus Reinhold* astronomer/mathematician – Saalfeld, Electorate of Saxony (1553/41)
1511-1108 Paul Eber* German theologian/reformer/hymnwriter - Kitzingen, Bavaria (1569/58)
1511-1115 Johannes Secundus* (b Jan Everaerts) Dutch poet – The Hague (1536/24)
1511-1130 Wolfgang Hilliger* German artillery and bell foundryman - Freiberg, Saxony (1576/65)
1511-1205 Maldev Rathore* ruler of Marwar – Marwar (later known as Jodhpur), India (1562/50)
1511-1218 Andrea Cornaro* Roman Catholic bishop/cardinal - Venice, Republic of Venice (1551/39)
1511-1221 Erasmus Ebner* German academic/diplomat/statesman - Nürnberg (1577/65)
Updated 2.7.2023
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