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March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico.
June 28 - Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).
September 20 - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world.
November 8 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
Erasmus publishes his Colloquia.
Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees.
Mannerism, artistic form appears in Italy and spreads.
Spanish find Barbados.
Cacao comes to Europe.
Panama founded.
Births
March 31 - King Henri II of France (d.1559)
April 13 - Catherine de Medici, Queen consort of France
June 15 - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England and Elizabeth Blount
July 22 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
Thoinot_Arbeau (anagram of Jehan Tabourot), author of Orchesographie
Deaths
January 12 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
January 21 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter and widely regarded genius (b. 1452).
June 24 - Lucrezia Borgia, illegitimate daughter of deceased Pope Alexander VI (b.1480)
August 11 - Johann Tetzel, Dominican priest.
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