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Years: 1520Events 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 Hernan Cortes. His brother Cuitlahuac rises to the throne. 1521Events 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. 1522Events January 9 Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI. February 26 Execution by hanging of Cuauhtemoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernan Cortes. April 22 Battle of Bicocca French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are def 1523Events April Battle of Villalors Forces loyal to Emperor Charles V defeat the Comuneros, a league of urban bourgeois rebelling against Charles in Spain. June 6 Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden, establishing finally its full independence from Denmark. 1524Events March 1, 1524/ 5 Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. April 30 Battle of the Sesia Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy defeat the French army in Italy under William de Bonnivet. The French, now commanded by Francois de St. Pol, wi 1525Events January 21 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-sta 1526Events January 14 Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan. May 22 Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the L 1527Events January 5 Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zurich by the Zurich Reformed state church. May 6 Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pop 1528 1529

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Fall of Tenochtitlán and conquest of Mexico by the Spanish.

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1520sCenturies: 15th century 16th century 17th century Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s Years: 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 Events and Trends Fall of Tenochtitlan and conquest of Mexico by the Span

1520s BCCenturies: 17th century BC 16th century BC 15th century BC Decades: 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC Events and Trends 1523 Traditional date for the beginning of the Shang Dynasty in China.

1520s in architectureSee also 1510s in architecture, other events of the 1520s, 1530s in architecture and the architecture timeline. Buildings 1525 Laurentian Library in Florence designed by Michelangelo. Births Deaths 1520s Years in architecture.

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