January 15 » King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
May 8 » Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
August 29 » The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
September 13 » After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
December 10 » Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
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