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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years: 1514 1515 1516 1517 1518 - 1519 - 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524
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Events
- March 4 - Hernan Cortes lands in Mexico
- September 20th - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world.
- November 8 - Hern�n Cort�s enters Tenochtitlan and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
- Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556)
- Erasmus publishes his Colloquia
- Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees
- Mannerism, artistic form appears in Italy and spreads
- Spaniard Hernando Cortes enters Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexican Aztec Empire
Births
- King Henri II of France (d.1559)
- April 13 - Catherine de Medici, queen of France
- Thoinot_Arbeau (anagram of Jehan Tabourot), author of Orchesographie
Deaths
- January 12 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- January 21 - Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
- May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter and widely regarded genius (b. 1452).
- June 24 - Lucrezia Borgia, illegitimate daughter of deceased Pope Alexander VI (b.1480)
- August 11 - Johann Tetzel, Dominican priest.\n