May 20 » Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
May 23 » Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
July 31 » On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
August 1 » Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
August 17 » Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
August 29 » Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
January 19 » Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
May 22 » The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
October 21 » Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as the Strait of Magellan.
October 26 » Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.
November 8 » Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
November 28 » An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
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