April 22 » Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
June 28 » Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
August 10 » Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
August 15 » Panama City, Panama is founded.
August 20 » Philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
September 20 » Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
March 3 » The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
July 7 » The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
August 8 » John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
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