January 19 » Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
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 9 » More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
November 28 » An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
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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