Event of Interest
Jan 15 Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
Henry VIII
New Settlement
Jan 18 Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima in Peru
Francisco Pizarro
- Feb 10 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
- Mar 10 Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
- Mar 28 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed in Friesland
- May 4 Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- Jun 17 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
- Jun 22 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- Jun 24 Anabaptist commune of Münster captured and its leaders tortured and killed
- Jul 1 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
- Jul 14 Emperor Charles V conquers Tunis
- Jul 22 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa
Event of Interest
Sep 1 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
Jacques Cartier
- Oct 2 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)