Date | Event |
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Jan 9 |
Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) |
Jan 21 |
Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope |
Jan 30 |
Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland |
Feb 7 |
Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches |
Mar 9 |
-16] Marten Luther begins preaching his Invocavit Sermons in German city of Wittenberg |
Apr 27 |
Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France |
Apr 29 |
Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands |
May 25 |
Emperor Karel I returns to Spain |
May 30 |
French troops driven out of Genoa |
Jun 24 |
Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army |
Jun 24 |
Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas |
Jul 13 |
Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht |
Aug 11 |
Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails |
Sep 6 |
Ferdinand Magellen's Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnaigate the earth |
Sep 8 |
Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan) |
Oct 15 |
Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico |
Dec 20 |
Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. |
Dec 25 |
Turkish troops occupy Rhodos |
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