What is 1522?
{{Year nav|1522}} {{Year in various calendars|1522}} {{Year article header|1522}} == Events == *[[January 9]] – Adrian Dedens becomes [[Pope Adrian VI]]. * [[February 26]] – [[Execution (legal)|Execution]] by [[hanging]] of [[Cuauhtémoc]], [[Aztec]] ruler of [[Tenochtitlan]] under orders of [[conquistador]] [[Hernán Cortés]]. *[[April 22]] – [[Battle of Bicocca]] – French and Swiss forces under [[Odet de Lautrec]] are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory. *[[July 28]] – Beginning of Ottoman Sultan [[Suleiman I|Suleiman I's]] siege of the [[Knights of St. John]] in [[Rhodes]]. * [[September 6]] – The ''Vittoria'', one of the surviving ships of [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s expedition, returns to [[Sanlcar de Barrameda]] in [[Spain]], becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. *[[December 18]] – The Turks finally break into [[Rhodes]], but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets. *[[December 20]] – [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on [[Malta]] and become known as the [[Knights of Malta]]. * First [[Diet of Nuremberg]]. * The third edition of the [[Textus Receptus]] of the [[Bible]] published. [[Category:1522| ]]