January 3 » Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
March 6 » Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
April 29 » Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.
May 20 » Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
May 25 » The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
August 13 » After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
February 24 » Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.
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.
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.
March 8 » Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
May 1 » Stephen Báthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
July 11 » While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
August 8 » The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
November 4 » Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
November 8 » Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
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