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Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s |
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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
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Events
- January 1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro
- May 9 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the "New World".
- May 21 - Portuguese discover island of St Helena.
- December 31 - Cesare Borgia imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitelozzo and Oliveretto - he executes them the next morning.
- Ivan III of Russia and Mengli Ghiray of Crimean Khanate attack Grand Duchy of Lithuania without much success.
- Mengli Ghiray of Crimean Khanate destroys Saray, capital of Big Horde
- Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II elected emperor.
- "Newfoundland" gets its name from a letter.
- Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and named the mainland "Honduras".
- Wittenberg University founded.
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Births
- January 7 - Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)
- February 2 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
- March 20 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
- April 25 - Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (died 1574)
- June 6 - King John III of Portugal (died 1557)
- September 13 - John Leland, English antiquarian (died 1552)
- St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539)
- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII; died 1540)
- Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (died 1525)
- Stephen Hawes, English poet (died 1521)
- Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of Sengoku period (died 1555)
- Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (died 1572)
- Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; died 1577)
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537)
- Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543)
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Deaths
- April 2 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England (born 1486)
- May 6 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed)
- Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born c. 1475)
- Sogi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (born 1421)
- Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (born c. 1446)