Date | Event |
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Jan 24 |
Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy |
Feb 26 |
Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht |
Mar 23 |
Aragonese legal code formally recognised |
Mar 26 |
Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea |
Apr 15 |
Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII |
Apr 17 |
Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower |
May 10 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland |
May 12 |
German Duchy of Wurttemberg becomes Lutheran under Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg |
Jun 9 |
Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River |
Jun 12 |
Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples |
Jun 29 |
Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada |
Jul 4 |
Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. |
Jul 7 |
European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick. |
Jul 24 |
Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France |
Aug 15 |
Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits |
Aug 20 |
Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis |
Oct 13 |
Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III |
Oct 18 |
New pursuit of French protestants |
Oct 26 |
Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht |
Oct 30 |
English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England - a role formerly held by the Pope |
Nov 3 |
English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England |
Nov 6 |
Zealand hit by heavy storm |
Dec 4 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad |
Dec 6 |
Quito, Ecuador, founded by Spanish |
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