Treaty of Bruges between Henry VIII and Charles V.
Execution of the Duke of Buckingham for high treason; the office of constable of England, his inheritance, abolished.
"Cortés Captures the City of Mexico." See ix, 72.
Magellan reaches the Ladrones and the Philippines; he is slain on an island of the latter group.
1522. Conquest of Rhodes from the Knights of St. John by the Turks, under Solyman the Magnificent.
Battle of La Biococca; the French defeated by the forces of Charles under Colonna.
France invaded by the English under the Earl of Surrey.
A ship belonging to Magellan's fleet completes the circumnavigation of the globe.
Luther publishes his New Testament; he writes his Reply to Henry VIII, who had been dubbed "Defender of the Faith" by Pope Leo X, in acknowledgment of a book, A Defence of the Seven Sacraments, written against Luther.
1523. Invasion of France by Henry VIII and Charles V.