1521
January
*
January 3 -
Pope Leo X excommunicates
Martin Luther in the
papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
*
January 22 -
Emperor Charles V opens the
Diet of Worms.
*
January 28 -
Diet of Worms begins, lasting until
May 25.
March
*
March 6 -
Ferdinand Magellan discovers
Guam.
*
March 16 -
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the
Philippines.
April
*
April 7 -
Ferdinand Magellan arrives at
Cebu.
*
April 16 -
18 -
Martin Luther is examined before
Emperor Charles V and the
German Diet of Worms.
*
April 26 -
Martin Luther leaves
Worms and disappears for a year - he is rumored to be murdered but really is in hiding.
*
April 27 -
Magellan killed in the
Philippines.
May
* May - Outbreak of war between
Emperor Charles and the King of
France.
*
May 17 -
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for
treason.
*
May 20 -
Battle of Pampeluna.
*
May 25 - The
Diet of Worms ends when
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the
Edict of Worms, declaring
Martin Luther an
outlaw.
June
*
June 29 or
June 30 - the first document fully written in
Romanian: the letter of a Neacşu, a trader from
Câmpulung, to
Johannes Benkner, the mayor of
Braşov, warning that the
Ottoman Empire was preparing its troops to cross into
Wallachia and
Transylvania; the script used was
Romanian Cyrillic.
*
June 30 -
Battle of Esquiroz:
French forces under
Henri d'Albret, exiled King of
Navarre, are defeated by the
Spanish and forced to abandon their attempt to recover Henri's kingdom.
August
*
August 8 -
Hernán Cortés and allied local
Indians defeat
Aztec forces of
Cuautemoc, the last
Aztec Emperor, in the
Battle of Tenochtitlan.
*
August 13 -
Emperor Cuauhtémoc surrenders to
Hernán Cortés.
*
August 23 -
Christian II of Denmark is deposed as
king of Sweden and
Gustav Vasa is elected
regent.
*
August 29 - Capture of
Belgrade by the
Ottoman army of
Suleiman I after a brave resistance.
November
*
November 23 -
Spanish-
German-
Papal forces under
Prosper Colonna force
French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon
Milan.
Unknown dates
*
Berengairo da Garbi notices the
appendix.
*
Neacsu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, was written.
*
March 21 -
Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d.
1553)
*
May 8 -
Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d.
1597)
*
August 4 -
Pope Urban VII (d.
1590)
*
December 1 -
Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d.
1573)
*
December 13 -
Pope Sixtus V (d.
1590)
*
Anne Askew, English protestant martyr (d.
1546)
*
John Aylmer, English divine (d.
1594)
*
Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (d.
1565)
*
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d.
1586)
*
Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (d.
1603)
*
Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (d.
1554)
*
April 20 -
Zhengde Emperor of China (b.
1491)
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April 27 -
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
*
May 10 -
Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (b.
1457)
*
May 17 -
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed)
*
June 15 -
Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b.
1442)
*
August 27 -
Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
*
December 1 -
Pope Leo X (born
1475)
*
December 13 - King
Manuel I of Portugal (b.
1469)
*
Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (b.
1462)
*
Leonardo Loredano, Doge of Venice (b.
1436)
*
Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King
Henry VII of England (b.
1459)
*
Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador (b.
1460)
*
Stephen Hawes, English poet (b.
1502)
