Editing 1511 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 19]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Mirandola (1511)|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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Creighton |first1=Mandell |title=A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume 5 |date=1911 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company |page=144 |isbn=978-0-8370-7781-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2DUXAAAAYAAJ |access-date=September 14, 2024 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730152242/https://books.google.com/books?id=2DUXAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Henry VIII|King Henry VIII of England]] opens the two-day [[The Westminster Tournament Challenge|Westminster Tournament]] to celebrate the birth (on January 1) of his son [[Henry, Duke of Cornwall|Prince Henry]]. Sadly, the infant prince dies on February 22, nine days after the tournament's end.<ref>{{cite book |first=Henry |last=Ellis |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924027958713/page/518/mode/2up |title=Hall's Chronicle |location=London |year=1809 |page=518}}</ref> 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 {{convert|60|ft}} long and 14{{frac|3|4}} inches (37.5 cm) wide.
* [[February 14]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; (9th waning of [[Tabaung]] [[Burmese calendar|872 ME]] In what is now [[Myanmar]], [[Shwenankyawshin|King Shwenankyawshin Narapati II]] of [[Inwa|Ava]] dedicates his "exquisite golden palace".<ref>{{cite journal |author=Khin Khin Aye |title=Inscription record of Shwenankyawshin Narapati's Ava Palace construction |journal=Myanmar Vista Research Magazine |date=January 2007 |page=61 |language=my |location=Yangon}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; 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 [[Patria del Friuli|Friuli]] stage a revolt against their [[Venetian Republic|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.{<ref>{{cite book|title = Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance |last =Muir |first=Edward Wallace Jr. |author-link=Edward Wallace Muir Jr. |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |year=1998 |pages=94–96 |isbn=978-0-8018-5849-9}}</ref> 
* [[March 11]] &ndash; On the island of [[Puerto Rico]], Spanish conquistador [[Juan Ponce de León]] leads an incursion at [[Yahuecas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico|Yahuecas]] against the local [[Taino]] warriors, commanded by Chief [[Urayoán]].<ref name="Badillo203">{{cite book |last=Badillo |first=Jalil Sued |date=2008 |title=Agüeybana El Bravo: La recuperación de un símbolo |trans-title=Agüeybana El Bravo: Recovery of a symbol |language=es |publisher=Ediciones Puerto |isbn=9781934461181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJwMAQAAMAAJ |page=203}}</ref>  
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[1511 Idrija earthquake|A 6.9 magnitude earthquake]] strikes Slovenia and Italy and kills more than 10,000 people, striking with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme'').<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Anno Domini - On the 500th anniversary of the largest earthquake in Slovenia |url=https://www.tol-muzej.si/files/Anno_Domini_1511.pdf |access-date=May 1, 2024 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707085628/http://www.tol-muzej.si/files/Anno_Domini_1511.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The epicenter is around the town of [[Idrija]] in present-day [[Slovenia]], although some place it some 15-20 kilometers to the west, between [[Gemona]] and [[Pulfero]] in [[Friulian Slovenia]]. The earthquake affects a large territory between [[Carinthia]], [[Friuli]], present-day [[Slovenia]] and [[Croatia]].