History
1520 
World
General
Population: 476 Million*- Entertainment: Art includes Hans Baldung-Grien "Nativity", Cranach (portrait of Luther), Durer travels to Netherlands, Gruenwald "St. Erasmus and Maurice",
- Exploration: Magellan passes through straits of Magellan into Pacific Ocean and sails for Philippines
Paracelsus wanders through Europe - Mathematics: Scipione del Gerro solves cubic equations
- Religion: Pope Leo X excommunicates Luther and declares him a heretic at Diet of Worms – Luther burns bull publicly –
Luther would have been executed but saved by local leader Elector Frederick
Luther calls for social reform and attacks Pope as enemy of Christ - Deaths: Poet Cardinal Bernard Dovizi da Bibbiena, Artist Taffaelo Santini (Raphael), Sultan Selim I, Aztec Montezuma II
Africa
- Ethiopia: Portuguese mission to Ethiopia to 1526
Americas
- Mexico: Death of Aztec Montezuma II during revolt at end of Aztec power
Smallpox outbreak - South America: Incan empire maxed under Huayna Capac
Asia
- China: Portuguese traders settle
Wu painting begins - India: This decade Babar of Kabul invades India and becomes master of Punjab region
Europe
- General: Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunden and crowned King of Sweden in Stockholm – massacres leading Swede bishops and nobles
Coal is increasingly used as fuel in Britain and Low countries - England: Emperor Charles V visits Henry VIII at Docer and Canterbury
England signes commercial treaty with French empire
Henry VIII orders building of bowling lanes in Whitehall
"Field of the Cloth of Gold" - tunics made from "beards" of mussels – meeting between French and English kings but François I fails to get Henry VIII to support war against HRE Charles V - France: Royal Library of France founded
Francis I orders reformers silenced - German States: eginning of Anabaptist movement in Germany under Thomas Munzer
- Holy Roman Empire: Charles V crowned Emperor at Aix-la-Chapelle
- Italian States: Michelangelo designs Medici chapel and tombs in Florence
- Spain: Chocolate brought to Spain from Mexico
- Sweden: Danes massacre Swedes in Stockholm
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Sultan Selim I dies, son Suleiman II the Magnificent rules
Ottoman empire at peak
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