Editing 1520 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 21]] (Feast of St. Ursula) &ndash; The islands of [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]] are discovered by [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] explorer [[João Álvares Fagundes]], off [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]]. He names them ''Islands of the 11,000 Virgins'', in honour of [[Saint Ursula]].
* [[October 23]] &ndash; Charles V is crowned King of Germany in [[Aachen]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Philipp |first1=Marion |title=Ehrenpforten für Kaiser Karl V.: Festdekorationen als Medien politischer Kommunikation |date=2011 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-643-11134-0 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NbtZ6EP3JkC&dq=Karl+gegen+den+deutschen+K%C3%B6nig+%E2%80%9E23.+Oktober+1520%E2%80%9C&pg=PA75 |access-date=22 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; The four remaining ships of the [[Magellan expedition]] and their crews confirm that they have found the passage that will be named the [[Strait of Magellan]], the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The crew of the ''San Antonio'', led by [[Estêvão Gomes]] elects not to sail into strait and begins journeying back to Spain.<ref>{{cite book|author=Laurence Bergreen|title=Over the Edge of the World|publisher=Harper Perennial, 2003|pages=191–192|isbn=978-0-06-621173-2|date=2003-10-14|url=https://archive.org/details/overedgeofworl00berg/page/163|author-link=Laurence Bergreen}}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; Christian II is crowned king of Sweden in [[Storkyrkan|Nikolai Church]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Läsebok för folkskolan |date=1903 |publisher=P.A. Norstedt & söner |location=Stockholm |page=500 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvoNAAAAYAAJ&dq=christian+ii+sverige+%221+november+1520%22&pg=PA500 |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=sv}}</ref> The coronation is followed by a three-day feast in [[Stockholm]].
* [[November 7]] &ndash; At the end of the third day of Christian's coronation feast, several leading figures of the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion are imprisoned, and tried for high treason.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hillerbrand |first1=Hans J. |title=The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-506493-3 |page=114 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordencycloped0004unse_v6g2/page/114/mode/2up?q=%227+november%22 |access-date=23 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 9]]&ndash; [[Stockholm Bloodbath]]: The execution of 82 Swedish noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, is completed after two days of [[beheading]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Stockholms blodbad 1520 |url=https://stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/teman/stockholmshandelser/stockholms-blodbad-1520/ |website=Stockholmskällan redaktion |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=sv |date=8 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Cuauhtémoc]] becomes the last Aztec Emperor after the death from [[smallpox]] of the Emperor [[Cuitláhuac]], who reigned for only 80 days.{{cite book |first=Manuel |last=Orozco y Berra |title= Historia antigua y de la conquista de México (Ancient history of the conquest of Mexico) |url=http://archive.org/stream/historiaantiguay04oroz#page/492/mode/2up |access-date=October 7, 2012 |year= 1880 |publisher= Tipografía de Gonzalo A. Esteva|page=493}}
* [[November 28]] &ndash; After navigating through the [[Strait of Magellan|strait at the southern end of South America]], three ships under the command of [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] explorer [[Ferdinand Magellan]] reach the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Magellan thankful to find a peaceful sea after the dangerous trip through the strait, names the body of water "El Mar Pacifico" because of its pacifying waters.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Scott M. |last2=Callaghan |first2=Richard |title=Magellan's Crossing of the Pacific |journal=The Journal of Pacific History |date=September 2008 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=145–165 |doi=10.1080/00223340802303611 |s2cid=161223057 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223340802303611 |language=en |issn=0022-3344|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Alberdi Lonbide |first1=Xabier |last2=Etxezarraga Ortuondo |first2=Iosu |title=The Victoria : An example of Basque maritime technology that enabled the first circumnavigation of the globe, 1518-1522 |journal=International Journal of Maritime History |date=May 2021 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=241–256 |doi=10.1177/08438714211013575 |s2cid=235599215 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08438714211013575 |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=en |issn=0843-8714|url-access=subscription }}</ref> becoming the first Europeans to sail from the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the Pacific (the strait is later named the [[Strait of Magellan]]).
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther]] burns a copy of ''The Book of Canon Law'' (see [[Canon law (Catholic Church)|Canon Law]]), and his copy of the Papal bull ''[[Exsurge Domine]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elton |first1=G. R. |title=The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 2, The Reformation, 1520-1559 |date=2 August 1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-34536-1 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59Pae06JSiUC&dq=The+Book+of+Canon+Law+Exsurge+Domine+martin+luther+%2210+december+1520%22&pg=PA69 |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>