1521
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| Years: | 1518 1519 1520 - 1521 - 1522 1523 1524 |
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Year 1521 (MDXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1521
[edit] 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 - 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 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.
- 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.
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May 25: Martin Luther outlaw.
- 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 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] July - December
- 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.
- November 23 - Spanish-German-Papal forces under Prosper Colonna force French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon Milan.
[edit] Undated
- Berengairo da Garbi notices the appendix.
- Neacşu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, was written.
- San Juan Bautista is founded in the Puerto Rican archipelago.
- Capture of Rjasan through Moscow
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1521 MDXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2274 |
| Armenian calendar | 970 ԹՎ ՋՀ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -323 – -322 |
| Berber calendar | 2471 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2065 |
| Burmese calendar | 883 |
| 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) |
| Coptic calendar | 1237 – 1238 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1513 – 1514 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5281 – 5282 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1576 – 1577 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1443 – 1444 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4622 – 4623 |
| Holocene calendar | 11521 |
| Iranian calendar | 899 – 900 |
| Islamic calendar | 927 – 928 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 18Daiei 1 (大永元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2181 (皇紀2181年) |
| Julian calendar | 1566 |
| Korean calendar | 3854 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2064 |
- 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.
[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)
- 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 (born c1450)
- December 1 - Pope Leo X (born 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.af:1521
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