WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 16. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the first half of the 16. century

Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis. (1. June 1535)

Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain. (3. June 1539)

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops (6. June 1508)

Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. (6. June 1513)

Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected king of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day. (6. June 1523)

Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River. (9. June 1534)

Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark. (10. June 1523)

Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice. (10. June 1539)

Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon. (11. June 1509)

Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. (13. June 1525)

Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage. (15. June 1502)

Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine. (15. June 1520)

French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac. (21. June 1529)

Fatahillah chased away Portugal from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia. (22. June 1527)

Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V. (23. June 1532)

Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England. (24. June 1509)

The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded. (24. June 1535)

At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. (25. June 1530)

Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. (26. June 1541)

Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. (28. June 1519)