1522
EventsJanuary 9 - Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI. February 26 - Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés.April 22 - Battle of Bicocca - French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.July 28 - Beginning of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I's siege of the Knights of St. John in Rhodes. September 6 - The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. December 18 - The Turks finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets.December 20 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. First Diet of Nuremberg. The third edition of the Textus Receptus is published. Births March 28 - Albert The Warlike Catharine de Ricci Deaths February 26 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (executed).
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