January 15 » King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
February 12 » Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
August 23 » French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
August 29 » The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
September 30 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
January 26 » Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
March 1 » The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
May 18 » The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
July 29 » The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
September 8 » The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
September 11 » Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
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