1521

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Year 1521 (MDXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1521

January - June

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 - The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
March 6 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
March 16 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
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 24 - Castilian War of the Communities - Battle of Villalar: The Kingdom of Castile defeats the rebels.
April 26 - Martin Luther leaves Worms and disappears for a year - he is rumored to be murdered, but is actually in hiding at the Wartburg Castle.
April 27 - Magellan is killed in the Philippines.
May - War breaks out between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France.
May 17 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
May 20 - Battle of Pampeluna: The French defeat the Spanish.

May 25 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
June 29 or June 30 - The first document is fully written in Romanian: the letter of Neacşu, a trader from Câmpulung, to Johannes Benkner, the mayor of Braşov, warning that the Ottoman Empire is preparing its troops to cross into Wallachia and Transylvania; the script used is 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.

July - December

August 8 - Battle of Tenochtitlan: Hernán Cortés and allied local Indians defeat the Aztec forces of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor.
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 - Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman army of Suleiman I.
November 23 - Spanish-German-Papal forces under Prosper Colonna force French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon Milan.

Undated

Berengairo da Garbi notices the appendix.
Neacşu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, is written.
San Juan Bautista is founded in the Puerto Rican archipelago.
Rjasan is captured by Moscow.
The first child is born by Roxelana to Suleyman the Magnificent.

Births

March 21 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
May 8 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1597)
August 4 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
October 9 - Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1586)
December 1 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
December 13 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
date unknown

Anne Askew, English Protestant martyr (d. 1546)
John Aylmer, English divine (d. 1594)
Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (d. 1565)
Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (d. 1603)
Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (d. 1554)

See also :Category: 1521 births.

Deaths

April 20 - Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
April 25 - Juan López de Padilla, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, executed Spanish rebels
April 27 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1480)
May 10 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (b. 1457)
May 17 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed) (b. 1478)
June 15 - Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
June 21 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
July - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
August 27 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer (b. c. 1450)
December 1 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
December 13 - King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
date unknown

Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b. 1459)
Stephen Hawes, English poet (b. 1502)

See also :Category: 1521 deaths.

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