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| c. 1510 |
| | | The startling colour contrasts in Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling anticipate one of the main characteristics of Italian mannerism | |
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| 1510 |
| | | The painter Giorgione dies after a short but extremely influential life in Venice | |
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| 1511 |
| | | The earliest surviving curling stone, discovered in Scotland, dates from this year | |
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| 1511 |
| | | The Portuguese take control of Malacca, in the Malay peninsula, as a base for trade further east | |
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| 1512 |
| | | The Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), to trade in cloves and nutmeg | |
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| 1513 |
| | | James IV of Scotland dies at Flodden, in the disastrous defeat of his army by the English | |
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| 1513 |
| | | Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches the Pacific coast and claims the ocean for the king of Spain | |
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| 1513 |
| | | On the death of his father at Flodden, the one-year-old James V becomes king of Scotland | |
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| 1514 |
| | | Thomas Wolsey begins to build himself a palace at Hampton Court, but will later consider it politic to give it to Henry VIII | |
|  | Hampton Court west front, chromolithograph
Richmond Local Studies
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| 1514 |
| | | The Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of Oman | |
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