March 31 » Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
August 3 » Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
October 28 » Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
November 3 » Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France.
November 7 » The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
December 5 » Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
June 13 » Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
August 23 » The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
September 8 » Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
January 3 » Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
March 16 » Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
April 17 » Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.
May 20 » Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
June 30 » Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
August 13 » After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
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