1511 Explained

Year 1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January - March

• January 19  - The Siege of Mirandola by the Papal States, with help from the Duchy of Urbino and Spanish and Venetian troops, ends with the capture of Mirandola after 18 days of fighting. The Pope personally leads the troops and, after the outnumbered defenders surrender, works at preventing his troops from pillaging the city or harming the residents.^[1]
• February 12  - King Henry VIII of England opens the two-day Westminster Tournament to celebrate the birth (on January 1) of his son Prince Henry. Sadly, the infant prince dies on February 22, nine days after the tournament's end.^[2] The festivities are later memorialized in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll, a series of 36 separately painted pictures stitched together to form a roll almost long and 14 inches (37.5 cm}} wide.
• February 14  - The League of Cambrai, formed in 1508 by the Papal States, the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire is dissolved as Spain and the Holy Roman Empire withdraw and ally against France.
• February 22  - (9th waning of Tabaung 872 ME In what is now Myanmar, King Shwenankyawshin Narapati II of Ava dedicates his "exquisite golden palace".^[3]
• February 27  - In Italy, on "Fat Thursday", a Christian celebration marking the last days of feasting before the period of fasting during the Roman Catholic Lent, discontented citizens of Friuli stage a revolt against their Venetian occupiers and attack the city of Udine and invade the palaces of several members of nobility, murdering the wealthy families and plundering the palace contents. Special troops arrive from Gradisca d'Isonzo on March 1 and suppress the rebellion.

Notes and References

1. Book: Creighton . Mandell . A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume 5 . 1911 . Longmans, Green, and Company . 144 . 978-0-8370-7781-9 . September 14, 2024 . July 30, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200730152242/https://books.google.com/books?id=2DUXAAAAYAAJ . live .
2. Book: Ellis, Henry . Hall's Chronicle . London . 1809 . 518.
3. Khin Khin Aye . Inscription record of Shwenankyawshin Narapati's Ava Palace construction . Myanmar Vista Research Magazine . January 2007 . 61 . my . Yangon.