Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1520s decade ran from January 1, 1520, to December 31, 1529.

[edit] Events and trends

• Reformation; Bible translations of William Tyndale, Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli.
• The Aztec city of Tenochtitlán fell, and Mexico was conquered by the Spanish.
• 1520–66: The reign of Suleiman the Magnificent marked the zenith of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1521: Belgrade was captured by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1521: Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther, and Emperor Charles V declared Luther an enemy of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
• 1521: Henry VIII received the title Defender of the Faith.
• 1521: San Juan Bautista was founded in the isle of San Juan, north of Caparra. It became the capital city of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
• September 6, 1522: Ferdinand Magellan's crew finished circumnavigating the globe.
• 1523: Sweden gained independence from the Kalmar Union.
• 1523: Zwingli published Of Divine and Human Justice (German: Von gottlicher und menschlicher Gerechtigkeit) where he expounded his faith.
• 1524–25: Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1526: The Mughal Empire, founded by Babur, ruled most of India until 1857.
• 1527: The Sack of Rome occurred; this would later be considered the end of the Italian Renaissance^{[citation needed]}.
• 1529: The Siege of Vienna marked the Ottoman Empire's furthest advance into Europe.

[edit] References

Hassis, Ross. "The Immolation of Hernàn Cortés: Tenochtitlan, June 30, 1521," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.

Parker, Geoffrey. "Martin Luther Burns at the Stake, 1521," What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.

Rabb, Theodore K. "If Only It had Not Been Such a Wet Summer: The Critical Decade of the 1520s," What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, ed. Robert Cowley.

[edit] See also

• 1520s in architecture