January 26 » Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
February 17 » Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
March 29 » Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
April 10 » Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
April 22 » Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
December 24 » A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia.
April 30 » Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
July 6 » King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
August 10 » Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551–59.
August 27 » The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy.
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