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c. 1520
 
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Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams move into the Mortlake house inherited from Morgan’s uncle John Williams See in Google maps   
1520
 
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Eighty distinguished Swedish citizens are executed together on the main square, in what becomes known as the Stockholm Bloodbath      
c. 1520
 
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Mannerism develops in Italy in the work of the painters Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino       
1521
 
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Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther after he has refused to recant       
1521
 
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Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan crosses the Pacific in ninety-nine days and reaches Guam       
1521
 
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Luther travels to the German city of Worms to present his case to an imperial diet       
1521
 
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Ferdinand Magellan is killed in the Philippines, in a skirmish with natives      
1521
 
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Luther bears witness to a Protestant conscience, stating at Worms: 'Here I stand, I can not do otherwise.'       
1521
 
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The Turkish sultan, Suleiman I, marches into the kingdom of Hungary and captures Belgrade      
1521
 
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After a little more than a year Cortes recaptures Tenochtitlan and finally establishes Spanish control over Mexico