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January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther.
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 17 - 18 - Martin Luther speaks to 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 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.
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.
August 8 - Hernan Cortes and allied local Indians defeat Aztec forces of Cuautemoc, the last Aztec Emperor, in the Battle of Tenochtitlan.
August 13 - Emperor Cuauhtémoc surrenders to Hernan Cortes.
August 29 - Capture of Belgrade by the Turkish army of Suleiman I after a brave resistance.
November 23 - Spanish-German-Papal forces under Prosper Colonna force French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon Milan.
Berengairo da Garbi notices appendix.
The New Testament translated to English in part by William Tyndale.
Births
May 8 - Petrus Canisius, Jesuit (+ 1597)
August 4 - Pope Urban VII (+ 1590)
December 13 - Pope Sixtus V (+ 1590)
Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer of over 1000 madrigals
Deaths
April 27 - Battle of Mactan: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines.
May 17 - execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, for treason
August 27 - Josquin Desprez, renowned Franco-Flemish composer, leading representative of the Renaissance polyphonic style
September 22 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan
December 1 - Pope Leo X
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