April 18 » Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
April 23 » Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
May 20 » Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
June 30 » Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
August 13 » After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
January 25 » Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
January 28 » Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
March 7 » A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
May 26 » The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
September 10 » German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg .
October 8 » End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
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