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Fri Apr 15 2005 at 23:14:54
In the year
AD
1519...
After much politicking, Spanish king
Charles V
is elected
Holy Roman Emperor
, becoming the most powerful person in Europe as ruler of the largest empire on Earth.
Chasing rumors of fantastic riches, Spanish conquistador
Hernán Cortés
arrives in
Mexico
with 500 men, and 15 horses. Allegedly believing him to be the god
Quetzalcoatl
, Aztec emperor
Montezuma II
welcomes him into
Tenochtitlán
with a lavish celebration.
Chinese forces led by Confucian philosopher
Wang Yangming
suppress a rebellion in
Fukien
province led by the
Prince of Ning
.
Five ships under the command of Portuguese navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
set out from
Seville
, Spain on a voyage of discovery that will eventually be the first to
circumnavigate
the Earth.
Religious reformer
Martin Luther
openly declares himself in opposition to the Catholic church during a public debate with
Johann Eck
at
Leipzig
, now known as the
Leipzig Disputation
.
Spanish conquistador
Pedro Arias de Avila
founds
Panama City
.
These people were born in 1519:
Catherine de Medici
, future queen of France.
French king
Henry II
.
Gian Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce, the future pope
Innocent IX
.
Cosimo I de Medici
, first Grand Duke of
Tuscany
.
English merchant and financier
Sir Thomas Gresham
, founder of
Gresham College
in London, and often inaccurately credited with coining
Gresham's Law
, the economic principle that "bad money drives out the good."
English poet
Nicholas Grimald
.
French Calvinist theologian
Theodore Beza
.
Italian botanist and physiologist
Andreas Caesalpinus
.
Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator
Pedro Menendez de Aviles
, founder of
St. Augustine, Florida
.
French protestant leader
Gaspard de Châtillon, comte de Coligny
.
These people died in 1519:
Leonardo Da Vinci
.
Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I
, succeeded by his grandson,
Charles V
of Spain. Spanish conquistador
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
, first European to view the
Pacific Ocean
, beheaded for treason.
Lorenzo de Medici
, Duke of
Urbino
and father of
Catherine de Medici
.
Italian noblewoman
Lucrezia Borgia
.
German priest
Johann Tetzel
, whose sale of papal indulgences spurred
Martin Luther
to initiate the
Protestant Revolution
.
German engraver
Michael Wolgemut
, the teacher of
Albrecht Dürer
.
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16th century
1518
1520
Lorenzo de Medici
Wang Yangming
Hernán Cortés
Montezuma II
1525
Johann Tetzel
1421
1893
Louis II de Bourbon, 4th prince de Condé
1574
1573
Guidelines for 16th Century Strict Modal Counterpoint
Leonardo da Vinci
Innocent IX
Johann Eck
Cosimo I de Medici
1524
Military History
Thomas Gresham
Johann Franz Encke
1581
Catherine de Medici