February 12 » Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
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 30 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
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