1520s

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Millennia:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

Reformation; Bible translations of William Tyndale, Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli.
Fall of Tenochtitlán and conquest of Mexico by the Spanish.
1520-66: The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marks the zenith of the Ottoman Empire.
1521: Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman Empire.
1521: Luther is excommunicated and declared an enemy of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1521: Henry VIII receives title Defender of the Faith.
1521: San Juan Bautista is founded in the isle of San Juan, north of Caparra. It became the capital city of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
September 6, 1522: Ferdinand Magellan's crew finishes circumnavigating the globe.
1523: Sweden gains independence from the Kalmar Union.
1523: Zwingli expounds his faith in formal disputation.
1524-25: Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
1526: The Ottomans conquer the Kingdom of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács.
November 1526: The one really effective soldier in the Medici family, a young man named Giovanni della Bande Nere—who bore an uncanny resemblance to the later conqueror of Italy, Napoleon—was accidentally wounded by a cannonball from one of the Ferrarese guns in a small skirmish with Frundberg’s troops.
1526: Mughal Empire, founded by Babur, rules India until 1857.
1527: Sack of Rome is considered the end of the Italian Renaissance.
1529: The Siege of Vienna marks the Ottoman Empire's furthest advance into Europe.

References

Hassis, Ross. "The Immolation of Hernàn Cortés: Tenochtitlan, June 30, 1521," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.

Parker, Geoffrey. "Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521," What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.

Rabb, Theodore K. "If Only It had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.

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