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Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s

Years: 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 - 1520 - 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525

Events

• January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde
• June 7 - Field of Cloth of Gold. Famous meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France
• September 22 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• Cuitláuac becomes the Aztec ruler of the city of Tenochtitlan after Moctezuma II.
• November 8 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark results in the execution of around 100 persons (mostly nobility and clergy involved in the previous Swedish war effort).
• November 28 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan).

Births

• August 1 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland
• Choi Hyong Ung (known as Seosan) in Joseon

Deaths

• February 5 - Sten Sture the younger, viceroy of Sweden
• April 6 - Rafael, Italian painter and architect
• September 22 - Ottoman Sultan Selim I

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