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Events and Trends

★ Reformation; Bible translations of William Tyndale, Martin Luther and Ulrich 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: The Ottomans conquer the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács.

★ November 1526: The one really effective soldier in the Medici family, a young man named Giovanni della Bande Nere—who bore an uncanny resemblance to the later conqueror of Italy, Napoleon—was accidentally wounded by a cannonball from one of the Ferrarese guns in a small skirmish with Frundberg’s troops.

★ 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

★ 1520s in architecture