Information about 1520
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s |
| Years: | 1517 1518 1519 - 1520 - 1521 1522 1523 |
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Events of 1520
January - June
- January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
- June - Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernán Cortés. His brother Cuitláhuac rises to the throne.
- June 7 - Field of Cloth of Gold. Famous meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France.
July - December
- July 1 - The forces of Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan gain a major victory against the forces conquistador Hernán Cortés. This La Noche Triste (Night of Sorrow), results in the death of about 400 conquistadors and some 2,000 of their Native American allies. However Cortés and the most skilled of his men manage to escape and later regroup.
- September 22 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- October - Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies from smallpox. He is succeeded by his nephew Cuauhtémoc.
- November 8 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark results in the execution of around 100 persons (mostly nobility and clergy involved in the previous Swedish war effort).
- November 28 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan).
- December 10 - Martin Luther burns a copy of The Book of Cannon Law (see Canon Law) and his copy of the Papal bull Exsurge Domine.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1520 MDXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2273 |
| Armenian calendar | 969 ԹՎ ՋԿԹ |
| Bah' calendar | -324 – -323 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2064 |
| Chinese calendar | 4156/4216-8-9 (己卯年八月初九日) — to — 4157/4217-7-18(庚辰年七月十八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1236 – 1237 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1512 – 1513 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5280 – 5281 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1575 – 1576 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1442 – 1443 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4621 – 4622 |
| Holocene calendar | 11520 |
| Iranian calendar | 898 – 899 |
| Islamic calendar | 926 – 927 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 0 (永正0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2180 (皇紀2180年) |
| Julian calendar | 1565 |
| Korean calendar | 3853 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2063 |
- March 3 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
- August 1 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (died 1572)
- August 10 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)
- September 13 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (died 1598)
- October 5 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
- date unknown
- Seosan, Korean monk
- Jean Ribault, French navigator (died 1565)
- Vincenzo Galilei, Italian music theorist, lutenist, and composer (died 1591)
- Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (died 1568)
- Ijuin Tadaaki, Japanese nobleman (died 1561)
- Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (died 1590)
- Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor (died 1559)
- Johannes Acronius Frisius, German doctor and mathematician (died 1564)
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- Hans Eworth, Flemish portrait painter (died 1574)
- Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish novelist and poet (died 1561)
- Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian mannerist painter (died 1578)
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Deaths
- February 5 - Sten Sture the younger, Viceroy of Sweden (born 1493)
- April 6 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (born 1483)
- June 24 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (born 1489)
- September 22 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1465)
- October - Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- date unknown
- Cacamatzin, king of Texcoco (born 1483)
- Jan Lubrański, Polish bishop (born 1456)
- Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (born c1466)
- Sheikh Hamdullah, calligrapher (born 1436)
- probable
- Filippo de Lurano, Italian composer (born 1475)
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The year 1520 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Births
- - Vincenzo Galilei (d. July 2 1591), Italian scientist and musician.
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Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. The system used in classical antiquity was slightly modified in the Middle Ages to produce the system we use today. It is based on certain letters which are given values as numerals.
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This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Sunday (dominical letter AG), such as 2012.
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Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the
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founded Lima, the capital of Peru. 1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. 1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
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Christian II
By the grace of God, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst [1]
Reign July 22 1513 – January 20 1523 Denmark
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By the grace of God, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Wends and the Goths, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn and Dithmarschen, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst [1]
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