March 2 » Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
May 20 » Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
July 31 » On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
August 17 » Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
August 29 » Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
September 20 » The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then.
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).
June 26 » Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
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.
September 30 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
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