1521

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Years: 1518 1519 1520 - 1521 - 1522 1523 1524

Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

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Architecture - Art - Music - Science

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1521 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1521 MDXXI
Ab urbe condita	2274
Armenian calendar	970 ԹՎ ՋՀ
Chinese calendar	4157/4217-11-23 (庚辰年十一月廿三日) — to — 4158/4218-12-3 (辛巳年十二月初三日)
Ethiopian calendar	1513 – 1514
Hebrew calendar	5281 – 5282
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1576 – 1577
- Shaka Samvat	1443 – 1444
- Kali Yuga	4622 – 4623
Iranian calendar	899 – 900
Islamic calendar	927 – 928
Japanese calendar	Eishō 18 (永正18年) — changed to — Daiei 1 (大永元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2181 (皇紀2181年)
- Jōmon Era	11521
Thai solar calendar	2064

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 August 1.7 November 1.8 Unknown dates 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• January 22 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
• January 28 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.

[edit] March

• March 6 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
• March 16 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

[edit] April

• April 7 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
• April 16 - 18 - Martin Luther is examined before Emperor Charles V and the German Diet of Worms.
• April 26 - Martin Luther leaves Worms and disappears for a year - he is rumored to be murdered but really is in hiding.
• April 27 - Magellan killed in the Philippines.

[edit] May

• May - Outbreak of war between Emperor Charles and the King of France.
• May 17 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
• May 20 - Battle of Pampeluna.
• May 25 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.

[edit] June

• June 29 or June 30 - the first document fully written in Romanian: the letter of Neacşu, a trader from Câmpulung, to Johannes Benkner, the mayor of Braşov, warning that the Ottoman Empire was preparing its troops to cross into Wallachia and Transylvania; the script used was Romanian Cyrillic.
• June 30 - Battle of Esquiroz: French forces under Henri d'Albret, exiled King of Navarre, are defeated by the Spanish and forced to abandon their attempt to recover Henri's kingdom.

[edit] August

• August 8 - Hernán Cortés and allied local Indians defeat Aztec forces of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, in the Battle of Tenochtitlan.
• August 13 - Emperor Cuauhtémoc surrenders to Hernán Cortés.
• August 23 - Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
• August 29 - Capture of Belgrade by the Ottoman army of Suleiman I after a brave resistance.

[edit] November

• November 23 - Spanish-German-Papal forces under Prosper Colonna force French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon Milan.

[edit] Unknown dates

• Berengairo da Garbi notices the appendix.
• Neacsu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, was written.
• San Juan Bautista is founded in the Puerto Rican archipielago.

[edit] Births

• March 21 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
• May 8 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1597)
• August 4 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
• December 1 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
• December 13 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
• Anne Askew, English Protestant martyr (d. 1546)
• John Aylmer, English divine (d. 1594)
• Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (d. 1565)
• Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1586)
• Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (d. 1603)
• Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (d. 1554)

[edit] Deaths

• April 20 - Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
• April 27 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (born c1480)
• May 10 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (b. 1457)
• May 17 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed) (born 1478)
• June 15 - Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
• August 27 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer (born c1450)
• December 1 - Pope Leo X (born 1475)
• December 13 - King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
• Piero di Cosimo, Italian artist (b. 1462)
• Leonardo Loredano, Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
• Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b. 1459)
• Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
• Stephen Hawes, English poet (b. 1502)