What happened in 1520?
Revolt of the Comuneros, Battle of Otumba and Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan — among 60 events recorded in 1520. A further 5 events are dated only to the wider period.
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Wars & Conflicts 14
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La Noche Triste
Important event during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, wherein Hernán Cortés, his invading army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital at Tenochtitlan
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Battle of Otumba
1520 battle during the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs
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Battle of Bogesund
1520 battle
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Battle of Raichur
1520 war in India
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Battle of Cempoala
Event during the Conquest of Mexico
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Battle of Tordesillas
1520 battle in Spain
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Battle of Mokhisi
1520 battle in the Caucasus region
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Battle of Pago
1520 successful Portuguese siege on Bintan
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Capture of Algiers
1520 battle
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Battle of Uppsala
1520 battle
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Battle of Beirut
1520 battle
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Siege of Mandsaur
1520 siege
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Cleanse the Causeway
1520 battle
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Stockholm Bloodbath
Massacre
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People 12
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Selim I died
9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
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Pedro Álvares Cabral died
Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
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Alonso Álvarez de Pineda died
Spanish explorer and cartographer
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Juan de Cartagena died
Spanish explorer
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Luis de Mendoza died
Spanish explorer
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Gaspar de Quesada died
Spanish Marine
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Roger Collingwood died
English mathematician
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Judah Loew ben Bezalel born
Born in Poznań. Czech rabbi.
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Matthias Flacius born
Born in Labin. Croatian theologian (1520–1575).
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Sigismund II Augustus born
Born in Kraków. King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Barbara Radziwiłł born
Born in Vilnius. (1520-1551) queen-consort of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania.
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Aben Humeya born
Born in Válor. Spanish revolutionary.
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Exploration & Discovery 2
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Spanish assault on Djerba (1520)
Spanish expedition in Tunisia
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San Gervasio
archaeological Maya site on Cozumel in Mexico
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Religion & Belief Systems 14
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Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the Luzhetsky Monastery
Cathedral in Mozhaysk, Russia
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Gazi Mehmed-bey Isaković Mosque
Mosque in Sarajevo
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Krużlowa
Church building in Krużlowa Wyżna, Poland
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St. Magdalena
Filial church in Lochen, Dietramszell, Germany
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Santa Maria Maggiore church
Church building in Trento, Italy
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Saints Philip and James Church, Sękowa
Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Sękowa from the fifteenth-century
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Antonievo-Siysky Monastery
Russian Orthodox monastery
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Jewish cemetery in Nový Bydžov
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Reformed Church
Church building in Herisau in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland
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Reformed Church
Church building in Moosseedorf in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
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evangelical reformed church
Church building in Uerkheim in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland
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couvent des Annonciades
Convent located in Gironde, in France
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St Accurse chapel
Sepulchral chapel located in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)
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Pfarrgasse 5
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Economy & Trade 1
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CTT Correios de Portugal
National postal service company of Portugal
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Disasters & Pandemics 1
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Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan
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Social Movements & Revolutions 1
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Revolt of the Comuneros
Rebellion
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Architecture & Engineering 12
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Regensburg Cathedral
Cathedral in Germany
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Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato
Church in Genoa
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Kuveždin monastery
Monastery
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St Andrew Undershaft
Church in City of London, UK
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Savilahti Stone Sacristy
Church building in Mikkeli, Finland
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Church of Santa Ana (Garachico)
Church building in Garachico, Spain
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St Engan's Church
Church in Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
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Château de Talcy
Castle
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Edzell Castle
Castle ruin and walled garden in Edzell, Angus, Scotland, UK
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Spøttrup Borg
Brick Gothic castle in Denmark
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Fort of São João do Arade
Building in Ferragudo, Faro District, Portugal
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Church of the Holy Cross
Church building in Rauma, Finland
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Empires & Countries 3
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Tlaxcala dissolved
Tlaxcala ceased to exist, having been centered at Tlaxcala de Xicoténcatl.
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Mecklenburg-Güstrow founded
Mecklenburg-Güstrow was founded.
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Samma dynasty dissolved
Samma dynasty ceased to exist, having been centered at Thatta.
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Dated to the wider period
Wikidata records these 5 entries only to a century, decade or millennium rather than to a specific year. They are listed here because 1520 is where that broader date falls, not because they are known to have happened in 1520.
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Laxmi Narayan Temple
Hindu temple in Amber, Jaipur district, Rajasthan, India
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Whites Castle
16th-century castle in Athy, Ireland
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1520s 3
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Iturritxiki
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Epiphany Church in Ostroh
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Tōkō-in
Buddhist temple in Japan
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