Events

• May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.
• November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.
• Atahualpa wins Inca civil war over Huscar
• The Prince is published five years after author Niccolò Machiavelli died
• Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais

Births

• John Hawkins, navigator

Deaths

• William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Thomas Harding , translator of the bible