Millennium: | 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 |
The 1520s decade ran from January 1, 1520, to December 31, 1529.
Events and trends
- Reformation; Bible translations of William Tyndale, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli.
- 1521-The Aztec city of Tenochtitlán fell, leading to the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish.
- 1520–66: The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marked the zenith of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1521: Belgrade was captured by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1521: Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther, and Emperor Charles V declared Luther an enemy of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
- 1521: Henry VIII received the title Defender of the Faith.
- 1521: San Juan Bautista was 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 finished circumnavigating the globe.
- 1523: Sweden gained independence from the Kalmar Union.
- 1523: Zwingli published Of Divine and Human Justice (German: Von gottlicher und menschlicher Gerechtigkeit) where he expounded his faith.
- 1524–25: German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1526: The Mughal Empire, founded by Babur, ruled most of India until 1857.
- 1527: The Sack of Rome occurred; this would later be considered the end of the Italian Renaissance[citation needed].
- 1529: The Siege of Vienna marked 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.