Year 1520 (MDXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
May 22: Aztec warriors and nobles are massacred by the Spaniards at Tenochtitlan
June 30-July 1: Hundreds of Spanish conquistadors killed by Aztec warriors during La Noche Triste.
1520 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1520
MDXX
Ab urbe condita2273
Armenian calendar969
ԹՎ ՋԿԹ
Assyrian calendar6270
Balinese saka calendar1441–1442
Bengali calendar927
Berber calendar2470
English Regnal year11 Hen. 8 – 12 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2064
Burmese calendar882
Byzantine calendar7028–7029
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4217 or 4010
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4218 or 4011
Coptic calendar1236–1237
Discordian calendar2686
Ethiopian calendar1512–1513
Hebrew calendar5280–5281
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1576–1577
 - Shaka Samvat1441–1442
 - Kali Yuga4620–4621
Holocene calendar11520
Igbo calendar520–521
Iranian calendar898–899
Islamic calendar926–927
Japanese calendarEishō 17
(永正17年)
Javanese calendar1437–1438
Julian calendar1520
MDXX
Korean calendar3853
Minguo calendar392 before ROC
民前392年
Nanakshahi calendar52
Thai solar calendar2062–2063
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1646 or 1265 or 493
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1647 or 1266 or 494

Events

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November 8: Stockholm Bloodbath.


January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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  • October 21 (Feast of St. Ursula) – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are discovered by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes, off Newfoundland. He names them Islands of the 11,000 Virgins, in honour of Saint Ursula.
  • October 23 – Charles V is crowned King of Germany in Aachen.[20]
  • October 21 – The four remaining ships of the Magellan expedition and their crews confirm that they have found the passage that that will be named the Strait of Magellan, the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The crew of the San Antonio, led by Estêvão Gomes elects not to sail into strait and begins journeying back to Spain.[21]
  • November 1 – Christian II is crowned king of Sweden in Nikolai Church.[22] The coronation is followed by a three-day feast in Stockholm.
  • November 7 – At the end of the third day of Christian's coronation feast, several leading figures of the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion are imprisoned, and tried for high treason.[23]
  • November 9Stockholm Bloodbath: The execution of 82 Swedish noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, is completed after two days of beheading.[24]
  • November 25Cuauhtémoc becomes the last Aztec Emperor after the death from smallpox of the Emperor Cuitláhuac, who reigned for only 80 days.Orozco y Berra, Manuel (1880). Historia antigua y de la conquista de México (Ancient history of the conquest of Mexico). Tipografía de Gonzalo A. Esteva. p. 493. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  • November 28 – After navigating through the strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean. Magellan thankful to find a peaceful sea after the dangerous trip through the strait, names the body of water "El Mar Pacifico" because of its pacifying waters.[25][26] becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait is later named the Strait of Magellan).
  • December 10Martin Luther burns a copy of The Book of Canon Law (see Canon Law), and his copy of the Papal bull Exsurge Domine.[27]

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Births

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Barbara Radziwiłł

Deaths

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Raphael

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