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Years: | 1518 1519 1520 - 1521 - 1522 1523 1524 |
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Year 1521 (MDXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1521[]
January - June[]

March-April:Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world
- January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- January 22 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
- January 28 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
- March 6 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
- March 16 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
- April 7 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
- April 16 - 18 - Martin Luther is examined before Emperor Charles V and the German Diet of Worms.
- April 26 - Martin Luther leaves Worms and disappears for a year - he is rumored to be murdered but really is in hiding.
- April 27 - Magellan killed in the Philippines.
- May - Outbreak of war between Emperor Charles and the King of France.
- May 17 - Edward Stafford, is executed for treason.
- May 20 - Battle of Pampeluna.

May 25: Martin Luther outlaw.
- May 25 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
- June 29 or June 30 - the first document fully written in Romanian: the letter of Neacşu, a trader from Câmpulung, to Johannes Benkner, the mayor of Braşov, warning that the Ottoman Empire was preparing its troops to cross into Wallachia and Transylvania; the script used was Romanian Cyrillic.
- June 30 - Battle of Esquiroz: French forces under Henri d'Albret, exiled King of Navarre, are defeated by the Spanish and forced to abandon their attempt to recover Henri's kingdom.
July - December[]
- August 8 - Hernán Cortés and allied local Indians defeat Aztec forces of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, in the Battle of Tenochtitlan.
- August 13 - Emperor Cuauhtémoc surrenders to Hernán Cortés.
- August 23 - Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
- August 29 - Capture of Belgrade by the Ottoman army of Suleiman I.
- November 23 - Spanish-German-Papal forces under Prosper Colonna force French Marshal Odet de Lautrec to abandon Milan.
Undated[]
- Berengairo da Garbi notices the appendix.
- Neacşu's Letter, the oldest surviving Romanian document, was written.
- San Juan Bautista is founded in the Puerto Rican archipelago.
- Capture of Rjasan through Moscow
Births[]
Gregorian calendar | 1521 MDXXI
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Ab urbe condita | 2274 |
Armenian calendar | 970 ԹՎ ՋՀ |
Bahá'í calendar | -323 – -322 |
Buddhist calendar | 2065 |
Coptic calendar | 1237 – 1238 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1513 – 1514 |
Hebrew calendar | 5281 – 5282 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1576 – 1577 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1443 – 1444 |
- Kali Yuga | 4622 – 4623 |
Holocene calendar | 11521 |
Iranian calendar | 899 – 900 |
Islamic calendar | 927 – 928 |
Japanese calendar | Eishō
18
— changed to — Daiei
1
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- Imperial Year | Kōki 2181 (皇紀2181年) |
Julian calendar | 1566 |
Korean calendar | 3854 |
Thai solar calendar | 2064 |
- March 21 - Maurice (d. 1553)
- May 8 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1597)
- August 4 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
- October 9 - Ottavio Farnese (d. 1586)
- December 1 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- December 13 - Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
- date unknown
- Anne Askew, English Protestant martyr (d. 1546)
- John Aylmer, English divine (d. 1594)
- Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (d. 1565)
- Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (d. 1603)
- Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (d. 1554)
- See also 1521 births.
Deaths[]
- April 20 - Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
- April 27 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (born c1480)
- May 10 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist and satirist (b. 1457)
- May 17 - Edward Stafford (executed) (born 1478)
- June 15 - Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
- June 21 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
- July - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
- August 27 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer (born c1450)
- December 1 - Pope Leo X (born 1475)
- December 13 - King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
- date unknown
- Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England (b. 1459)
- Stephen Hawes, English poet (b. 1502)
- See also 1521 deaths.
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People of the year 1521 at Familypedia
24 people were born in 1521
14 children were born to the 8 women born in 1521
22 people died in 1521
1032 people lived in 1521
Events of the year 1521 at Familypedia
12 people were married in 1521.
Joined with | |
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Jane Booth (c1500-1545) | Thomas Holford (c1508-1569) |
Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire (1503-1564) | Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1503-1547) |
Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1503-1547) | Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire (1503-1564) |
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latymer of Snape (1493-1543) | Dorothy de Vere (?-1527)+Elizabeth Musgrave (1504-)+Catherine Parr (1512-1548) |
Heinrich XIV. Reuß zu Greiz (c1464-1535) | Anna von Colditz (1480-1520)+Amalie von Mansfeld zu Vorder-Ort (1506-aft1557) |
Elizabeth Sothill (c1505-1575) | William Drury (c1515-1557) |
Thomas Southworth (c1497-1546) | Ann Stanley (c1500-) + Margery Boteler (1503-) |
John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl (1507-1542) | Grizel Rattray (-aft1537)+Jean Forbes (bef1542-) |
Anne de Laval (1505-1554) | François II de La Trémoille (1502-1542) |
Beatriz of Portugal (1504-1538) | Charles III de Savoie (1486-1553) |
Charles III de Savoie (1486-1553) | Beatriz of Portugal (1504-1538) |
Amalie von Mansfeld zu Vorder-Ort (1506-aft1557) | Heinrich XIV. Reuß zu Greiz (c1464-1535) |
There were 0 military battles in 1521.