March 22 » Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
December 10 » The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
December 29 » Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
February 11 » Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
April 20 » Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
May 10 » Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
June 9 » Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
July 7 » Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
July 24 » French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
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