June 15 » Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
September 30 » Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
October 21 » João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
October 26 » Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.
November 1 » The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
November 8 » Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
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.
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.
October 15 » The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
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