June 15 » Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
July 7 » Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
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 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.
December 10 » Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
February 8 » Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice Judaism of his sister and her children.
May 17 » Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
August 18 » John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
September 27 » Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
October 16 » Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
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