Explore 163 historical events from 1520–1529.
Giovanni da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer from the Republic of Florence, best known for his expedition to North America. He led most of his later missions, including the one t…
Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor
The Kaqchikel are one of the indigenous Maya peoples of the midwestern highlands of Guatemala and of southern Mexico. They constitute Guatemala's third largest Maya group. The name…
The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
The Italian campaign of 1524–1525 was the final significant action of the Italian War of 1521–1526 launched by the French into Northern Italy. Led by Francis I of France, the Frenc…
French troops lay siege to Pavia.
François Hotman was a French lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchomaques, who struggled against absolute monarchy. His first name is often wr…
François Hotman, French lawyer and jurist (died 1590)
Thomas Erastus was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and tha…
Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (died 1583)
Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre (1552), Les Hymnes (1555-1556), Les Discours (1562-1563), La Franciade (1572), and Sonnets pour Hélèn…
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet and author (died 1585)
Francisco Vallés also known as Divino Vallés Covarrubias, 4 October 1524 – Burgos, 20 September 1592) was a Spanish physician, the best example of the medical Renaissance in Spain.
Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (died 1592)
Durgavati, popularly known as Rani Durgavati, was the regent queen of Gondwana during the infancy of her son Vir Narayan, from 1550 to 1564. She married Dalpat Shah, a son of the G…
Rani Durgavati, Queen of Gond (died 1564)
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard was a French knight and military leader at the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, generally known as the Chevalier de Bayard…
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (born 1473)
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent KG was an English peer.
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, English peer (born 1481)
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1485 and again from 1489 to 1514, was an English nobleman, soldier and statesman who served four monarchs. He…
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1443)
Ismail I was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid era is…
Ismail I, First Emperor of Safavid Empire (born 1487)
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar was a Spanish conquistador and adelantado who was first governor of Cuba. In 1511 he led the successful conquest and colonization of Cuba. As the first g…
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (born 1465)
Claude of France was suo jure Duchess of Brittany and Queen of France as the wife of Francis I. She was the elder daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany.
Claude, queen consort of France (born 1499)
Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, the…
Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter (born c. 1480)
Thomas Linacre or Lynaker was an English humanist scholar, Catholic priest, and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford, and Linacre House, a boys' boarding house at The King…
Thomas Linacre, English physician and scholar (born 1460)
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos or Voes, were the first two Lutheran martyrs, executed by the Council of Brabant for their adherence to Reformation doctrine. They were burned at the …
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in…
Gustav Eriksson Vasa, also known as Gustav I, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560. He was previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from…
Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designat
Simon de Colines was a Parisian printer and one of the first printers of the French Renaissance. He was active in Paris as a printer and worked exclusively for the University of P…
The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii i
Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of both the country of Denmark and the wider Kingdom of Denmark, with a population of 671,673 people in the municipality and 1.4 mi…
Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of C
Marco Antonio Bragadin, also Marcantonio Bragadin, was a Venetian lawyer and military officer of the Republic of Venice.
Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (died 1571)
Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy. She was the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of B…
Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (died 1573)
Anna Jagiellon was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587.
Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1596)
Franz von Sickingen was a knight of the Holy Roman Empire who, with Ulrich von Hutten, led the so-called "Knights' War". He is posthumously known as the "Last Knight", an epithet s…
Franz von Sickingen, German knight (born 1481)