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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1509. || Henry VIII King of England. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1512. || Selim Sultan (to 1520). He bought the title of Caliph.
Fall of Soderini (and Machiavelli) in Florence. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1513. || Leo X Pope. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1515. || Francis I King of France. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1517. || Selim annexed Egypt. Luther propounded his theses at Wittenberg. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1519. || Leonardo da Vinci died. Magellan's expedition started to sail round the world. Cortez entered Mexico city. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1520. || Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan (to 1566), who ruled from Bagdad to Hungary. Charles V Emperor. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1521. || Luther at the Diet of Worms. Loyola wounded at Pampeluna. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1525. || Baber won the battle of Panipat, captured Delhi, and founded the Mogul Empire. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1527. || The German troops in Italy, under the Constable of Bourbon, took and pillaged Rome. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1529. || Suleiman besieged Vienna. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1530. || Pizarro invaded Peru. Charles V crowned by the Pope. Henry VIII began his quarrel with the Papacy. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1532. || The Anabaptists seized Münster. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1535. || Fall of the Anabaptist rule in Münster. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1539. || The Company of Jesus founded. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1543. || Copernicus died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1545. || The Council of Trent (to 1563) assembled to put the church in order. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1546. || Martin Luther died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1547. || Ivan IV (the Terrible) took the title of Tsar of Russia. Francis I died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1549. || First Jesuit missions arrived in South America. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1552. || Treaty of Passau. Temporary pacification of Germany. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1556. || Charles V abdicated. Akbar Great Mogul (to 1605). Ignatius of Loyola died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1558. || Death of Charles V. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1563. || End of the Council of Trent and the reform of the Catholic Church. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1564. || Galileo born. |}