1521

Year '1521' (MDXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1521

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1521

January - June

★ 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 6 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.

★ March 16 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

★ 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 - 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 29 or June 30 - the first document fully written in Romanian: the letter of 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.

July - December

★ August 8 - Hernán Cortés and allied local Indians defeat Aztec forces of Cuauhtémoc, 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 23 - Spanish-German-Papal forces under Prosper Colonna force French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon Milan.

Undated

★ Berengairo da Garbi notices the appendix.

★ Neacşu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, was written.

★ San Juan Bautista is founded in the Puerto Rican archipelago.

★ Capture of Rjasan through Moscow

Births

★ March 21 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)

★ May 8 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1597)

★ August 4 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)

★ October 9 - Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1586)

★ December 1 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)

★ December 13 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Anne Askew, English Protestant martyr (d. 1546)

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★ John Aylmer, English divine (d. 1594)

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★ Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (d. 1565)

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★ Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (d. 1603)

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★ Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (d. 1554)
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Deaths

★ April 20 - Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)

★ April 27 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (born c1480)

★ May 10 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (b. 1457)

★ May 17 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed) (born 1478)

★ June 15 - Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)

★ June 21 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (b. 1436)

★ July - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)

★ August 27 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer (born c1450)

★ December 1 - Pope Leo X (born 1475)

★ December 13 - King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b. 1459)

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★ Stephen Hawes, English poet (b. 1502)
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