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| Millennia: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 |
| Categories: | Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments |
Events and trends
- Reformation; Bible translations of William Tyndale, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli.
- Fall of Tenochtitlán and conquest of Mexico by the Spanish.
- 1520-66: The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marks the zenith of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1521: Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1521: Luther is excommunicated and declared an enemy of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
- 1521: Henry VIII receives title Defender of the Faith.
- 1521: San Juan Bautista is founded in the isle of San Juan, north of Caparra. It became the capital city of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
- September 6, 1522: Ferdinand Magellan's crew finishes circumnavigating the globe.
- 1523: Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.
- 1523: Zwingli expounds his faith in formal disputation.
- 1524-25: Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1526: Mughal Empire, founded by Babur, rules India until 1857.
- 1527: Sack of Rome is considered the end of the Italian Renaissance.
- 1529: The Siege of Vienna marks the Ottoman Empire's furthest advance into Europe.
References
Hassis, Ross. "The Immolation of Hernàn Cortés: Tenochtitlan, June 30, 1521," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.
Parker, Geoffrey. "Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521," What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.
Rabb, Theodore K. "If Only It had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.
See also
