April 19 » Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
June 21 » French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
July 26 » Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
September 1 » The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
September 27 » The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
October 15 » The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
January 31 » Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
April 27 » Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
May 31 » King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
August 4 » Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
September 29 » Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
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