July 26 » Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
August 1 » Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
October 19 » Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
January 21 » Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris.
May 19 » French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
June 1 » Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
June 24 » The Dominion of Münster, a radical communal Anabaptist state in the independent German city of Münster, is conquered by Franz von Waldeck, the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Münster in a night attack.
July 6 » Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
October 4 » The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
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