What happened in 1520?
39 recorded events in 1520, including 13 in wars & conflicts, 9 in people and 7 in architecture & engineering. A further event is dated only to the wider period.
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Wars & Conflicts 13
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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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People 9
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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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Exploration & Discovery 1
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Spanish assault on Djerba (1520)
Spanish expedition in Tunisia
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Religion & Belief Systems 4
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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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Economy & Trade 1
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CTT Correios de Portugal
National postal service company of Portugal
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Social Movements & Revolutions 1
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Revolt of the Comuneros
Rebellion
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Architecture & Engineering 7
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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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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 this entry only to a century, decade or millennium rather than to a specific year. It is listed here because 1520 is where that broader date falls, not because it is known to have happened in 1520.
1520s 1
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Iturritxiki
Iturritxiki (Exploration & Discovery).
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