Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1512 Medici restored in
Florence
1513 English defeat
French at battle of the
Spurs and Scots at
Flodden; Balboa
discovers Pacific Ocean

1515 French defeat
Milanese at Marignano

1519 Magellan sets out
on voyage of
circumnavigation

1520 Field of the Cloth
of Gold; start of Revolt of
the Communeros in
Spain

1521 Cortés destroys
Tenochtitlan (Mexico
City); Turks capture
Belgrade
1522 Turks expel Knights
Hospitalers from Rhodes;
del Cano completes
circumnavigation

1524 Peasants’ Revolt
begins in Germany
1525 Battle of Pavia;
Milan becomes Hapsburg
territory

1526 Treaty of Madrid;
League of Cognac; battle
of Mohács
1527 Sack of Rome;
Medici expelled from
Florence

1528 Andrea Doria in
power in Genoa
1529 Peace of Cambrai;
Turks besiege Vienna;
Treaty of Zaragoza

1530 Charles V gives
Malta to Knights
Hospitalers; Medici
restored in Florence
1531 Pizarro destroys
Inca empire

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1512 Fifth Lateran

Council

1513 Leo X pope

1514 Tetzel sells

indulgences in Germany

1516 Concord of

Bologna

1517 Luther’s Ninety-five

Theses

1519 Capuchin rule

established

1520 Luther

excommunicated

1521 Diet of Worms;

Melanchthon’s Loci

communes published

1522 Adrian VI pope;

Complutensian Polyglot

Bible published

1523 Clement VII pope

1524 Theatine Order

founded

1526 First Diet of Spires

1527 First Protestant

university founded at

Marburg

1529 Colloquy of

Marburg; Articles of

Schwabach; second Diet

of Spires

1530 Confession of

Augsburg

1531 Schmalkaldic

League; death of Zwingli

1519 Charles V becomes

emperor (→1556)

1521 Ferdinand (I) regent

of Austria

1523 Gustavus I Vasa

king of Sweden (→1560)

1530 Charles V crowned

emperor; Federico II

Gonzaga created first

duke of Mantua

1531 Mary of Hungary

regent of Netherlands

(→1556)

1515 Epistolae

obscurorum virorum

published

1516 More’s Utopia and

first edition of Ariosto’s

Orlando furioso

published; Titian official

painter to Venetian

Republic

1517 Del Sarto’s

Madonna of the Harpies

1523 Michelangelo

designs Bibiotheca

Laurenziana (Florence)

1526 Holbein’s first visit

to England

1520

1530