1511

1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1511th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 511th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 16th century, and the 2nd year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1511, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1508 1509 1510 – 1511 – 1512 1513 1514

1511 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1511 MDXI
Ab urbe condita	2264
Armenian calendar	960 ԹՎ ՋԿ
Assyrian calendar	6261
Balinese saka calendar	1432–1433
Bengali calendar	918
Berber calendar	2461
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 8 – 3 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2055
Burmese calendar	873
Byzantine calendar	7019–7020
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4207 or 4147     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4208 or 4148
Coptic calendar	1227–1228
Discordian calendar	2677
Ethiopian calendar	1503–1504
Hebrew calendar	5271–5272
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1567–1568
- Shaka Samvat	1432–1433
- Kali Yuga	4611–4612
Holocene calendar	11511
Igbo calendar	511–512
Iranian calendar	889–890
Islamic calendar	916–917
Japanese calendar	Eishō 8 (永正８年)
Javanese calendar	1428–1429
Julian calendar	1511 MDXI
Korean calendar	3844
Minguo calendar	401 before ROC 民前401年
Nanakshahi calendar	43
Thai solar calendar	2053–2054
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1637 or 1256 or 484     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1638 or 1257 or 485

Births

• February 8 – Giorgio Vasari (d. 1574), Italian painter, architect and writer

Deaths

• January 9 – Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
• February 11 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• June 6 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa
• July 2 – Şahkulu, leader of the Şahkulu Rebellion
• August 2 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
• September 6 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• October 18 – Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
• date unknown
  • Nicolás de Ovando (born 1460), Spanish soldier, governor of Hispaniola
  • Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
  • Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
  • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
  • Yusuf Adil Shah, founding leader of the Adil Shahi dynasty
• probable – Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)