1520
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This article is about the year 1520.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1517 1518 1519 – 1520 – 1521 1522 1523 |
| 1520 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1520 MDXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2273 |
| Armenian calendar | 969 ԹՎ ՋԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6270 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -324–-323 |
| Bengali calendar | 927 |
| Berber calendar | 2470 |
| English Regnal year | 11 Hen. 8 – 12 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2064 |
| Burmese calendar | 882 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7028–7029 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年十二月十一日 (4156/4216-12-11) — to —
庚辰年十一月廿二日(4157/4217-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1236–1237 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1512–1513 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5280–5281 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1576–1577 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1442–1443 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4621–4622 |
| Holocene calendar | 11520 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 520–521 |
| Iranian calendar | 898–899 |
| Islamic calendar | 926–927 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 17 (永正17年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 1520 MDXX |
| Korean calendar | 3853 |
| Minguo calendar | 392 before ROC 民前392年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2063 |
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Year 1520 (MDXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- January 19 – King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden. The Swedish regent Sten Sture the younger is mortally wounded in the battle. He is rushed towards Stockholm, in order to lead the fight against the Danes from there, but dies from his wounds on February 3.
- April 16 – Revolt of the Comuneros: Citizens of Toledo, Castile opposed to the rule of the Flemish-born Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, rise up when the royal government attempts to unseat radical city councilors.
- June – Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernán Cortés. His brother Cuitláhuac rises to the throne.
- June 7 – King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France meet at the famous Field of Cloth of Gold.
- June 10 – Revolt of the Comuneros: Blockade of Segovia.
- June 15 – Pope Leo X issues the bull Exsurge Domine (Arise O Lord), threatening Martin Luther with excommunication if he does not recant his position on indulgences and other Catholic doctrines.
July–December [edit]
- July 1 – La Noche Triste (Night of Sorrow): The forces of Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, gain a major victory against the forces of conquistador Hernán Cortés. This results in the death of about 400 conquistadors and some 2,000 of their Native American allies. However, Cortés and the most skilled of his men manage to escape and later regroup.
- July 20 – The Spaniards defeat the Aztecs at Otumba near Lake Texcaco.
- September 7 – Christian II makes his triumphant entry into Stockholm, which has surrendered to him a few days earlier. Sten Sture's widow Christina Gyllenstierna, who has led the fight after Sten's death, and all other persons in the resistance against the Danes, are granted amnesty and are pardoned for their involvement in the resistance.
- September 22 – Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- October – Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies from smallpox. He is succeeded by his nephew Cuauhtémoc.
- October 21 (Feast of St. Urusula) – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are discovered by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes off Newfoundland. He names them "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins" in honour of Saint Ursula.
- November 1 – Christian II is elected king of Sweden.
- November 4 – Christian II is crowned king of Sweden. The coronation is followed by a three-day feast in Stockholm.
- November 7 – At the end of the third day of Christian's coronation feast, several leading figures of the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion are imprisoned and tried for high treason.
- November 8–November 10 – 82 noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, are executed by beheading in the Stockholm bloodbath.
- November 28 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan).
- December 10 – Martin Luther burns a copy of The Book of Canon Law (see Canon Law) and his copy of the Papal bull Exsurge Domine.
Date unknown [edit]
- Martin Luther writes To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation.
- The Franciscan friar Matteo Bassi is inspired to return to the primitive life of solitude and penance as practiced by St. Francis, giving rise to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
- The Castilian War of the Communities begins.
- Duarte Barbosa returns to Cananor.
- Aleksandra Lisowska (Roxelana) is given as a gift to Suleiman I on the occasion of his accession to the throne.
Births [edit]
- March 3 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
- August 1 – King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (d. 1572)
- August 10 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
- October 5 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
- December 6 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551)
- date unknown
- Patriarch Metrophanes III of Constantinople (d. 1580)
- Seosan, Korean monk
- Jean Ribault, French navigator (d. 1565)
- Vincenzo Galilei, Italian music theorist, lutenist, and composer (d. 1591)
- Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (d. 1568)
- Ijuin Tadaaki, Japanese nobleman (d. 1561)
- Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (d. 1590)
- Johannes Acronius Frisius, German doctor and mathematician (d. 1564)
- probable
- Hans Eworth, Flemish portrait painter (d. 1574)
- Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish novelist and poet (d. 1561)
- Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian mannerist painter (d. 1578)
- possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)
Deaths [edit]
- February 5 – Sten Sture the younger, Viceroy of Sweden (b. 1493)
- April 6 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
- May 22 – Jan Lubrański, Polish bishop (b. 1456)
- June 24 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
- September 22 – Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- October – Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- date unknown
- Cacamatzin, king of Texcoco (b. 1483)
- Sheikh Hamdullah, calligrapher (b. 1436)
- probable – Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (b. 1475)
