April 11 » War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
July 10 » The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
August 10 » The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
October 19 » Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
November 1 » The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
December 27 » The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.
April 19 » The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.
April 27 » Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
May 30 » In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
June 3 » Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
June 10 » Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
October 6 » Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
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.
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."
June 27 » The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
November 5 » Second Battle of Panipat: Fought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar.
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