1522

Years:
1519 1520 1521 - 1522 - 1523 1524 1525
Decades:
1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

January 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 of the Bible published.

February 2 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (died 1565)
March 28 - Albert the Warlike, German prince (died 1557)
May 24 - John Jewel, English bishop (died 1571)
September 11 - Ulissi Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (died 1605)
November 9 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (died 1586)
November 18 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (died 1568)
December 28 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1568)
Adriana of Antwerp, wife of John Rogers
Lamoraal Egmond, Flemish general and political figure (died 1568)
Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (died 1559)
Catharine de Ricci, Italian prioress (died 1590)