Editing 1513 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; Spanish conquistador [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]] writes a letter to [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|King Ferdinand II of Aragon]] advocating genocide against the native peoples of on the Caribbean islands, and begins the killing of hundreds of residents of Caribbean villages.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kiernan |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Kiernan |author-mask=3 |year=2007 |title=Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur |location=New Haven, CT |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |page=81 |isbn=978-0-300-10098-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/bloodan_kie_2007_00_0326}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; In a papal bull three days before his death, Pope Julius II declares Queen [[Catherine of Navarre]] and King [[John II of Aragon]] to be [[heresy|heretics]] for their refusal to participate with other Roman Catholic nations in the [[War of the League of Cambrai]].
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[John, King of Denmark|King Hans of Denmark]] dies at the age of 58 from injuries sustained in being thrown from a horse.<ref>{{runeberg|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/6/0565.html|chapter=Hans|title=[[Dansk biografisk Lexikon]]|last=Heise|first=Arnold|edition=1st|volume=6|date=1892}}</ref> He is succeeded by his 32-year-old son [[Christian II of Denmark|Christian II]] as ruler of Denmark and Norway.
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] dies three days after issuing his final [[papal bull]].
* [[March 4]] &ndash; The [[1513 papal conclave|conclave]] of the Roman Catholic Cardinals begins at the [[Niccoline Chapel]] in the [[Apostolic Palace]] in Rome, with 25 of the 31 Cardinals participating.<ref>{{cite book|last=Creighton|first=Mandell|title=The Italian Princes, 1464-1518|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpshAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA305|volume=IV|year=1887|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|location=London|chapter=Chapter XVIII. Beginnings of Leo X|page=178}}</ref> In the first round of balloting, none of the Cardinals receives the required 17 votes necessary for a three-fourth's majority, though Cardinal [[Jaime Serra I Cau]] of Spain, Bishop of Albano, receives 13.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Jean Godefroy|title=Lettres du roi Louis XII et du cardinal Georges d'Amboise: depuis 1504 à 1514|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YJYq99fNdEC|volume=IV|year=1712|publisher=Foppens|location=Brusselles|language=fr, la|pages=68–70}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash; Cardinal Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, the Apostolic Administrator of Amalfi but not ordained as a priest, is selected to succeed the late [[Pope Julius II]], as the 217th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. After two days, the selection is announced to the public and Medici, takes the name of [[Pope Leo X]] ,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gattina |first1=Ferdinando Petruccelli della |title=Histoire diplomatique des Conclaves |date=1864 |publisher=Librairie Internationale |page=493 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5NTAAAAcAAJ&q=mars+1513 |access-date=14 July 2023 |language=fr}}</ref> despite a strong challenge by Italian cardinal [[Raffaele Riario]] and his group of seniors, or cardinals that were elected by [[Sixtus IV]] and [[Innocent VIII]], who were opposed to the relatively newer juniors that included Medici.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sede Vacante 1513 |url=https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1513.html |website=www.csun.edu |access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 15]] &ndash; In the [[Spanish–Taíno War of San Juan–Borikén|Taino Rebellion]] on the island of [[Puerto Rico]], Spanish conquistador [[:es:Diego Guilarte de Salazar|Diego Guilarte de Salazar]] attacks the Taino towns  of [[Yauco, Puerto Rico|Yauco]] and Coxiguex.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJwMAQAAMAAJ| title=Agüeybana El Bravo: La recuperación de un símbolo|trans-title=Agüeybana El Bravo: Recovery of a symbol|language=Spanish|first=Jalil Sued|last=Badillo|publisher=Ediciones Puerto|year=2008|page=203|isbn=9781934461181}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; On [[Easter Sunday]], [[Afonso de Albuquerque]], Governor of [[Portuguese India]], makes an unsuccessful attempt to capture the port city of [[Aden]], on the Arabian Peninsula, from the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], using 20 ships and 2,500 soldiers. The 1,700 Portuguese, along with 800 mercenaries from Malabar, lose at least 100 killed during the attack and retreat.<ref name="vogel">Vogel, Theodore (1877). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0UABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125 A Century of Discovery: Biographical Sketches of the Portuguese and Spanish Navigators from Prince Henry to Pizarro]''. London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday. p. 125.</ref> 
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Juan Ponce de León]] becomes the first European definitely known to sight [[Florida]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peck |first1=Douglas T. |title=THE FIRST EUROPEAN CHARTING OF FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT SHORES |journal=The Florida Geographer |date=10 May 2003 |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=82–113 |url=https://journals.flvc.org/flgeog/article/view/77942 |access-date=14 July 2023 |language=en |issn=0739-0041}}</ref> mistaking it for another island.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Turner |first1=Samuel |title=Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=2013 |volume=92 |issue=1 |pages=1–31 |jstor=43487548 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43487548 |access-date=14 July 2023 |issn=0015-4113}}</ref>