1520

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1517 1518 1519 - 1520 - 1521 1522 1523

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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
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Year 1520 (MDXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1520

June: Aztec battles.

June - Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernán Cortés. His brother Cuitláhuac rises to the throne.

July 1 - The forces of Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan gain a major victory against the forces conquistador Hernán Cortés. This La Noche Triste (Night of Sorrow), results in the death of about 400 conquistadors and some 2,000 of their Native American allies. However Cortés and the most skilled of his men manage to escape and later regroup.

October - Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies from smallpox. He is succeeded by his nephew Cuauhtémoc.

November 8 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark results in the execution of around 100 persons (mostly nobility and clergy involved in the previous Swedish war effort).

November 28 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan).

December 10 - Martin Luther burns a copy of The Book of Cannon Law (see Canon Law) and his copy of the Papal bull Exsurge Domine.

March 3 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
August 1 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (died 1572)
August 10 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)
September 13 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (died 1598)
October 5 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
date unknown
- Seosan, Korean monk
- Jean Ribault, French navigator (died 1565)
- Vincenzo Galilei, Italian music theorist, lutenist, and composer (died 1591)
- Aben Humeya, last independent king of Granada (died 1568)
- Ijuin Tadaaki, Japanese nobleman (died 1561)
- Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (died 1590)
- Leonard Digges, mathematician and surveyor (died 1559)
- Johannes Acronius Frisius, German doctor and mathematician (died 1564)
probable
- Hans Eworth, Flemish portrait painter (died 1574)
- Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish novelist and poet (died 1561)
- Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian mannerist painter (died 1578)

See also Category: 1520 births.

See also Category: 1520 deaths.