April 19 » Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
April 22 » Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780mi)) east of the Moluccas.
June 21 » French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
July 26 » Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
September 1 » The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
September 27 » The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
January 23 » The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
February 14 » Coronation of Akbar.
February 14 » Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
March 21 » On the day of his execution in Oxford, former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
September 15 » Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
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