1513

Events

• January 20 - Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway.
• March 11 - Leo X elected pope.
• March 27 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time mistaking it for another island. Later, on April 2, he landed somewhere on the east coast of the newly discovered land.
• April - Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition become the first Europeans known to visit Florida.
• June 6 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara - Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
• August 16 - Battle of the Spurs (or Battle of Guinegate). English troops under Henry VIII defeat a French army under Marshal La Palice.
• August 22 - Capture of Terouenne by Henry VIII of England.
• September 9 - Battle of Flodden Field, King James IV of Scotland defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. James's son the Duke of Rothesay becomes James V, King of Scots.
• September 25 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, "silent upon a peak in Darién", first sees the Pacific Ocean.
• October 7 - Battle of La Motta - Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
• December - Louis XII makes peace with the Pope and Spain.

Births

• October 30 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (died 1593)
• December 23 - Thomas Smith, English scholar and diplomat (died 1577)
• Abe Motozane, Japanese general (died 1587)
• Michael Baius, Belgian theologian (died 1589)
• George Cassander, Flemish theologian (died 1566)
• Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1535)
• John Knox, Scottish religious reformer (died 1572)
• Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII of England (died 1563)
• Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, Irish rebel (died 1537)

Deaths

• February 20 - John, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (born 1455)
• February 21 - Pope Julius II, pope from 1503 to 1513 (born 1443)
• March 10 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, one of the principal Lancastrian commanders during the English Wars of the Roses (born 1443)
• September 9 - King James IV of Scotland, king of Scotland from 1488 to 1513 (born 1473)
• Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician
• Robert Fabyan, chronicler
• John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton,
• George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
• Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (born 1450)
• Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Duke of Suffolk (born 1471)