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World History Timeline - 1510
England's new king Henry VIII, and Castile's Ferdinand II join Pope Julius II's Holy League to drive the French from Italy, which they succeed in doing after the Battle of Spurs in 1513.
Renaissance artist Titian completes his wooden engraving of The Triumph of Christ, which measures almost nine feet in length.
Niccolò Machiavelli, the Florentine political philosopher, writes The Prince, a study in ruthless political tactics.
Puerto Rico's governor Ponce de Leon names Florida after Pascua Florida because he firsts sights land on Easter Sunday.
The Gothic Chartres Cathedral in France is finished after almost 400 years of construction.
The Scottish navy, developed by the internationally savvy James IV, is lent to Scotland's erstwhile ally, France.
Despite Pope Leo X's condemnations, the slave industry continues to grow.
Ottoman sultan Selim the Grim invades Persia, slaughtering many people in his attempt to impose Sunnism.
The English morality play, Everyman, is written.
Raphael succeeds Bramante as chief architect in the reconstruction of St. Peter's in Rome.
The King of Spain, Carlos I, is elected to be Holy Roman Emperor Charles V after Maximilian I dies, uniting the Spanish and German territories and making him the greatest of Hapsburg Emperors.
Louis XII of France dies and is succeeded by his cousin Francois I who will foster Renaissance intellectual life and culture.
In Italy, Raphael paints the famous portrait Baldassare Castiglione, and Titian paints The Assumption of the Virgin.
Usury becomes legal after five years of deliberations by the Fifth Lateran Council, endangering the Jewish and Italian monopoly on money lending.
The Protestant Reformation has its birth when the German monk Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to Wittenberg Cathedral, criticizing the Roman Catholic Church's abuse of indulgences; criticism of the Catholic Church will flower into a full-fledged schism that fractures the Christian world.
Englishman Sir Thomas More, statesman and author, presents his version of the ideal society in his book Utopia.
Tobacco is first introduced to Spanish explorer Juan de Grijalva by a native Indian chief.
The South Sea is renamed the Pacific Ocean by the famed Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan after he sails through the straits at the southern tip of South America.
The sweating sickness plagues England and wipes out much of the population of Oxford and Cambridge.
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