conditions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be Eastern Orthodox Christians. Also, the Turks are not allowed to build mosques, to be buried, to own land or to settle in the country. The Florentine Republic begins to be dismantled, and the Medici Family comes back into power. The word masque is first used to denote a poetic drama. Possible date – Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become his heliocentric astronomy De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514. Births January 13 – Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, General Inquisitor of Spain (d. 1594) January 17 – Sibylle of Cleves, electress consort of Saxony (d. 1554) January 31 – Henry, King of Portugal and Cardinal (d. 1580) February 3 – John Hamilton, archbishop of St Andrews (d. 1571) February 22 – Pedro Agustín, Spanish Catholic bishop (d. 1572) March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594) April 10 – James V of Scotland, King of Scots (d. 1542) April 23 – Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, Chancellor of the University of Oxford (d. 1580) April 30 – George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Glatz (d. 1553) July 5 – Cristoforo Madruzzo, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1578) July 25 – Diego de Covarubias y Leyva, Spanish jurist, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cuenca (d. 1577) August ? – Catherine Parr, English queen consort (d. 1548) August 27 – Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (d. 1564) November 4 – Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (d. 1565) November 9 – Jon Simonssøn, Norwegian humanist (d. 1575) November 11 – Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1589) December 21 – Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian nobleman (d. 1530) date unknown Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (d. 1558) Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland (d. 1548) Deaths January 2 – Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504 (b. 1460) January 30 – Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1500–1512) (b. 1473) February 2 – Hatuey, Puerto Rican Taíno chief February 22 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and cartographer, after whom the Americas are named (b. 1451) March 29 – Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (b. 1447) April 11 Gaston de Foix, French military commander (b. 1489) Asakura Sadakage, 9th head of the Asakura clan (b. 1473) May 21 – Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler