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Events
February 11 - Battle of Wayna Daga - Ethiopian/Portuguese? troops defeat the armies of Adal and the Ottoman Empire.
May - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
July 12 - King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Parr. It is the sixth of Henry's marriages and the third of Catherine's. Princess Elizabeth attends the wedding
Nice is captured and sacked by a Franco-Turkish fleet under Khair ed-Din Barbarossa.
September-October - Landrecies in Picardy is besieged by forces under Emperor Charles V, but withdraw on the approach of the French army.
Japanese receive first firearms from shipwrecked Portuguese
Indians in Spanish colonies are announced free against the wish of local settlers
Science
Andreas Vesalius publishes De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), revolutionising the science of human anatomy
Nicolaus Copernicus - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Births
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun and founder of Tokugawa shogunate
Sonam Gyrso, who will become Tibet's 3rd Dalai Lama Buddhism
Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter
William Byrd, renowned English composer
January 18 (baptized) Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer active in England
Giovanni Maria Nanino (Nanini), Italian composer of the Roman School
Deaths
February 11 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal.
May 24 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
July 19 - Mary Boleyn, former mistress to both Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England.
Francesco da Milano, Italian composer
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