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''.
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January 22 -
Emperor Charles V opens the
Diet of Worms.
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January 28 -
Diet of Worms begins, lasting until
May 25.
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March 6 -
Ferdinand Magellan discovers
Guam.
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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.
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May 17 -
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for
treason.
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May 20 -
Battle of Pampeluna.
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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
NeacÅŸu, a trader from
Câmpulung, to
Johannes Benkner, the mayor of
BraÅŸov, 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.
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 after a brave resistance.
★
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.
★
NeacÅŸu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, was written.
★
San Juan Bautista is founded in the
Puerto Rican archipelago.
★ Capture of
Rjasan through
Moscow
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)
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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 .''
Deaths
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April 20 -
Zhengde Emperor of China (b.
1491)
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April 27 -
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (born c
1480)
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May 10 -
Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (b.
1457)
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May 17 -
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (executed) (born
1478)
★
June 15 -
Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b.
1442)
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June 21 -
Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (b.
1436)
★ July -
Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador (b.
1460)
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August 27 -
Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer (born c
1450)
★
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 .''
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