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"One anonymous conquistador reported in 1519 he found the Mayan people to be "great sodomites"; a later explorer wrote to Europe everyone in the New World". --Queer timeline [1], see Hernán Cortés In this province of Panuco the men are great sodomites, cowards, and drunkards; it is almost incredible the length to which they carry their passion for intoxicating fluids (when they can no longer stand and drink, they lie down and have it injected by a squirt into their breech).-- Narrative of some things of New Spain and of the great city of Temestitan, Mexico[2] "The second language is that of the Pacaxes, the people who live in the country between the plains and the mountains. These people are more barbarous. Some of them who live near the mountains eat human flesh. They are great sodomites, and have many wives, even when these are sisters. They worship painted and sculptured stones, and are much given to witchcraft and sorcery." [...] "The women paint their chins and eyes like the Moorish women of Barbary. They are great sodomites.[454] They drink wine made of the pitahaya, which is the fruit of a great thistle which opens like the pomegranate."-- Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera cited in Original Narratives of Early American History, by Vaca and Others[3] |
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Year 1519 (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
Literature
- Carajicomedia by anonymous
Fiction
Non-fiction
Visual art
Music
Architecture
January–June
- January 1 – Ulrich Zwingli preaches for the first time as people's priest of the Great Minister in Zürich.
- March 4 – Hernán Cortés and his conquistadores land in Mexico.
- April 21 (Maundy Thursday) – Hernán Cortés reaches San Juan de Ulúa; next day (Good Friday) he sets foot on the beach of modern-day Veracruz.
- June 28 – Charles I of Spain becomes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (rules until 1556).
July–December
- July 4 – Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against Johann Eck at Leipzig.
- July 10 – The Prince of Ning rebellion begins after Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
- August 15 – Panama City is founded.
- August 20 – Ming dynasty Chinese philosopher and general Wang Yangming, governor of Jiangxi, defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion. Wang has expressed the intention of using fo–lang–ji cannons in suppressing the rebellion, probably the earliest reference in China to the breech-loading Frankish culverin.
- September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain with a fleet of five ships to sail westabout to the Spice Islands.
- October 12 – Hernán Cortés and his men, accompanied by 3,000 Tlaxcalans, enters Cholula.
- November 8 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan and the court of Aztec ruler Moctezuma.
Date unknown
- The first civil revolt in Anatolia took place which was led by Alevi preacher Celâl.
- The Spanish find Barbados.
- Havana moves from the southern to the northern part of Cuba.
- A large pandemic spreads from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru in South America. This widespread epidemic kills off much of the indigenous populations in these areas, the first widely documented epidemic in the New World.
- Central Mexico Amerindians' population – 25.3 million.
- The Mexican Indian Wars begin.
- Postclassic period ends in Mesoamerica.
- Cacao comes to Europe.
- St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn is completed in Estonia.
- The artistic form appears in Georgia and spreads.Template:Vague
- The first recorded fatal accident involving a gun in England is recorded at Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Births
- January 1 – Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, Spanish colonial administrator (d. 1593)
- January 18 – Isabella Jagiellon, Queen (d. 1559)
- February 5 – René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544)
- February 15 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (d. 1574)
- February 16 – Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572)
- February 17 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
- February 19 – Froben Christoph of Zimmern, Author of the Zimmern Chronicle (d. 1566)
- March 4
- Adrian Stokes, English politician (d. 1586)
- Hindal Mirza, Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1551)
- March 17 – Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (d. 1596)
- March 22 – Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, English Baroness (d. 1580)
- March 31 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
- April 13 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
- May 27 – Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (d. 1594)
- June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603)
- June 12 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
- June 15 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Royal bastard of Henry VIII (d. 1536)
- June 23 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist (d. 1572)
- June 24 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
- July 20 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
- September 23 – Francis, Count of Enghien, French military leader (d. 1546)
- October 14 – Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Princess of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and by marriage Electress Palatine (d. 1567)
- November 9 – Ogasawara Nagatoki, Daimyo (d. 1583)
- November 22 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, physician (d. 1585)
- date unknown
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet (d. 1562)
- Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (d. 1563)
- Edwin Sandys, English prelate (d. 1588)
- Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord
- Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1572)
- probable
- Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (d. 1579)
- Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1583)
- possible
- Catherine Howard, fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)
Deaths
- January 12 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
- January 15 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
- February 6 – Lorenz von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (b. 1459)
- March 29 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (b. 1466)
- May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
- May 4 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
- June 2 – Philippe de Luxembourg, French Cardinal (b. 1445)
- June 24 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)
- August 11 – Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)
- August 23 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. c. 1465)
- September 10 – John Colet, English churchman and educator (b. 1467)
- date unknown
- William Grocyn, English scholar (b. 1446)
- Jo Gwang-jo (Cho Kwangjo), Korean scholar (b. 1482)
- Bars Bolud Jinong, Mongol khan (b. 1490)
- Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (b. 1494)