February 10 » Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
February 12 » Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
June 15 » Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
July 30 » Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
January 21 » The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
February 24 » A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
February 28 » Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
May 15 » Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
June 13 » Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
May 16 » Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
June 23 » Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
August 13 » Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
September 1 » Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
November 15 » Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
November 16 » Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.
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