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Events in History

  • Jan 4 -6] 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)

Event of interestEvent of Interest

Feb 18 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with 11 ships and 500 men

Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés
Spanish Conquistador
Hernán Cortés
  • May 9 Austrian adel and burgerij in uprising against central government

Electoral defeatElection of Interest

Jun 28 King Carlos I elected Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V

Event of interestEvent of Interest

Jul 16 Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

Founder of Protestanism Martin Luther
Founder of Protestanism
Martin Luther
  • Jul 25 San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba

Event of interestEvent of Interest

Jul 26 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro
Spanish Conquistador
Francisco Pizarro
  • Aug 15 Panama City founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila
  • Sep 2 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
  • Sep 5 Second Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernán Cortés vs Tlascala Aztecs

Event of interestEvent of Interest

Sep 20 Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan killed on route)

Explorer Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
Ferdinand Magellan
  • Nov 4 Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
  • Nov 7 University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther

Conference meetingMeeting of Interest

Nov 8 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico

Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II
Aztec Emperor
Moctezuma II
Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés
Spanish Conquistador
Hernán Cortés

Birthdays in History

  • Jan 18 Isabella Jagiełło, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
  • Feb 5 René of Châlon, (d. 1544)
  • Feb 15 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer who founded St. Augustine, Florida, born in Avilés, Spain (d. 1574)
  • Feb 16 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral
  • Feb 17 Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)

Person of interestHenry II

Mar 31 Henry II, King of France (1547-59), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris (d. 1559)

King of France Henry II
King of France
Henry II
  • Apr 13 Catherine de' Medici, Italian born Queen consort to Henry II of France and later regent to her sons
  • May 27 Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
  • Jun 6 Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician and botanist, born in Arezzo, Italy (d. 1603)
  • Jun 12 Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and art patron of Florence, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1574)
  • Jun 24 Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
  • Jul 20 Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1591)

Deaths in History

  • Jan 12 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
  • Jan 21 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)

Person of interestLeonardo da Vinci

May 2 Leonardo da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67

Painter, Scientist & Visionary Leonardo da Vinci
Painter, Scientist & Visionary
Leonardo da Vinci
  • May 4 Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, dies at 26
  • Jun 24 Lucrezia Borgia, Italian noblewoman,daughter of Pope Alexander VI, dies at 39
  • Aug 11 Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79
  • Aug 23 Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
  • Sep 10 John Colet, English churchman and educator
  • Sep 21 Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49
  • Nov 30 Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85