January 19 » Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
June 15 » Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
July 1 » Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
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.
November 8 » Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
December 10 » Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
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