1520

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s

Years: 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 - 1520 - 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525

• January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde
• June 7 - Field of Cloth of Gold. Famous meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France
• September 22 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• Cuitláuac becomes the Aztec ruler of the city of Tenochtitlan after Moctezuma II.
• November 8 - Stockholm bloodbath takes place

Births

• August 1 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland[?]

Deaths

• February 5 - Sten Sture the younger, viceroy of Sweden
• April 6 - Rafael, Italian painter and architect
• September 22 - Ottoman Sultan Selim I