Explore 163 historical events from 1520–1529.
Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec was a French military leader, a knight of the Order of St. Michael and grand seneschal of Guyenne. As Marshal of France, he commanded the campaign …
Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec, French general (born 1485)
Georg von Frundsberg was a German Knight, military, and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and Imperial House of Habsburg. An early modern proponent of infa…
Georg von Frundsberg, German knight and landowner (born 1473)
Matthias Grünewald was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th …
Matthias Grünewald, German artist (born 1470)
Richard Foxe was an English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also …
Richard Foxe, English bishop and academic (born 1448)
Hernando Alonso was a Spanish conquistador. He is believed to be the first Jewish person to come to the New World, and was the first person in the New World to be burned at the sta…
Hernando Alonso, Spanish conquistador, first Jew executed in the New World
The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the War of the League of…
Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance
Pánfilo de Narváez was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas. Born in Spain, he first sailed to the island of Jamaica in 1510 as a soldier. Pánfilo participated in the…
Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only four survive
The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "…
The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic
Fatahillah, Fadhillah Khan, or Falatehan was a commander of the Sultanate of Demak who is known for leading the conquest of Sunda Kelapa in 1527 and changing its name to Jayakarta.…
Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta
Lê Cung Hoàng, born Lê Xuân, was the last emperor of the Later Lê dynasty of Vietnam and reigned from 1522 to 1527.
Lê Cung Hoàng cedes the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty.
John Rut was an English mariner, born in Essex, who was chosen by Henry VIII to command an expedition to North America in search of the Northwest Passage. On 10 June 1527 he set sa…
The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Johannes Stadius or Estadius, was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. He was one of the important late 16th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions…
Johannes Stadius, German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (died 1579)
Philip II, sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.…
Philip II of Spain (died 1598)
John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of hi…
John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1609)
Maximilian II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death in 1576. A member of the Austrian House of Habsburg, he was crowned King of Bohemia in Prague on 14 May 1562 and elec…
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1576)
John Lesley was a Scottish Catholic bishop and historian. His father was Gavin Lesley, rector of Kingussie, Badenoch.
John Lesley, Scottish bishop (died 1596)
Sir William Drury was an English statesman and soldier.
William Drury, English politician (died 1579)
Louis de Lorraine, cardinal de Guise et prince-évêque de Metz was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and Bishop during the Italian Wars and French Wars of Religion. The fourth son of…
Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (died 1578)
Charles III de Bourbon, comte de Montpensier, then duc de Bourbon was a French military commander, governor, prince of the royal blood and rebel during the early Italian Wars. The …
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (born 1490)
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treat…
Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author (born 1469)
Rodrigo de Bastidas was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta.
Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish explorer, founded the city of Santa Marta (born 1460)
Scaramuccia Trivulzio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Como in Italy, from 1508 to 1518. He was then Bishop of Piacenza, from 1519 to 1525.
Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
The Lodi dynasty was an Afghan royal family that ruled the Sultanate of Delhi from 1451 to 1526. It was the fifth and final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, and was founded by Bahlu…
The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi, is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat
Elizabeth of Austria was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of…
Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (died 1545)