June 15 » Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
July 1 » Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
September 30 » Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
October 21 » Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as the Strait of Magellan.
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".
November 9 » More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
May 26 » Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
July 25 » The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
August 6 » Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
September 28 » Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
October 28 » The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
December 17 » Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
January 23 » James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
May 20 » Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
September 10 » Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
November 1 » The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
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