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1531
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
The Aztec Virgin of Guadalupe appears to an Indian near Mexico City and tells him she is 'one of his kind'       
1531
 
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The Protestant princes of Germany form the defensive League of Schmalkalden      
1531
 
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Zwingli is killed at Kappel in a battle between Protestant and Catholic cantons      
1531
 
   
Francisco Pizarro leads 168 men, with about 30 horses, into the territory of the Inca empire      
1532
 
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Henry rebuilds the Great Hall at Hampton Court, the first in a sequence of rooms leading towards his private lodgings See in Google maps   
The Great Hall, c.1910

1532
 
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François Rabelais publishes Pantagruel, the first to appear of his five books about the giant Pantagruel and his father Gargantua       
1532
 
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The Privy Garden at Hampton Court is completed and is divided up into squares by 180 posts topped with heraldic beasts and is said to resemble a chess board in red, white and green See in Google maps   
1532
 
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Pizarro and his tiny force ambush and massacre the Inca court in Cajamarca, capturing Atahualpa himself alive       
1532
 
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Atahualpa agrees to buy his freedom from the Spaniards with a room full of gold and another of silver      
1533
 
    
In a secret ceremony Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, though he has not yet succeeded in divorcing Catherine of Aragon