Major Events
- Feb 11 Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian and Portuguese troops beat Muslim army
- Feb 11 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and English King Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
- Jun 1 Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius publishes "De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)" a major step forward in understanding human anatomy [date is representative as exact date of publication unknown]
- Jul 1 England & Scotland sign peace treaty of Greenwich
- Jul 7 French troops invade Luxembourg
- Aug 5 French and Turkish troops occupy Nice
- Aug 22 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren
- Sep 3 Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland
- Sep 6 French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
- Sep 7 William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, ruler of the Duchy of Guelders surrenders to Emperor Charles V after the emperor's forces subdue his
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Did You Know?
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Martin Luther
Michelangelo
Charles V
Francis I of France
Henry VIII
Suleiman the Magnificent