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Events
February 21
-
Battle of Wayna Daga
- A combined army of
Ethiopian
and
Portuguese
troops defeat the armies of
Adal
led by
Ahmed Gragn
.
May
-
Nicolaus Copernicus
publishes
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
July 12
- King
Henry VIII of England
marries
Catherine Parr
. It is the sixth of Henry's marriages and the third of Catherine's. Princess
Elizabeth
attends the wedding
Nice
is captured and sacked by a Franco-Turkish fleet under
Khair ed-Din Barbarossa
.
September-October
-
Landrecies
in
Picardy
is besieged by forces under
Emperor Charles V
, but withdraw on the approach of the French army.
Japanese
receive first
firearms
from shipwrecked
Portuguese
Indians in Spanish colonies are announced free against the wish of local settlers
Science
Andreas Vesalius
publishes
De Humanis Corporis Fabrica
(
On the Fabric of the Human Body
), revolutionising the science of human
anatomy
Nicolaus Copernicus
-
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Births
January 18
(baptized)
Alfonso Ferrabosco
, Italian composer
William Byrd
, English composer
Domenico Fontana
, Italian architect (d.
1607
)
Sonam Gyrso
, 3rd Dalai Lama
Tokugawa Ieyasu
,
Japanese
shogun
and founder of
Tokugawa shogunate
Giovanni Maria Nanino
(Nanini), Italian composer
Federigo Zuccaro
, Italian painter
Deaths
February 21
-
Ahmed Gragn
, sultan of
Adal
.
May 24
-
Nicolaus Copernicus
, Polish astronomer
July 19
-
Mary Boleyn
, former
mistress
to both
Francis I of France
and
Henry VIII of England
.
Francesco da Milano
, Italian composer
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