Magellan's circumnavigation
The Victoria becomes the first ship to sail around the world
Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition found a strait at the tip of South America and crossed the Pacific. Magellan was killed in the Philippines; the Victoria under Elcano completed the first circumnavigation in 1522.
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While Magellan's expedition circled the globe, Cortés fought the Aztecs. Magellan was killed in April 1521; Tenochtitlan fell that August.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 25 years earlier
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 11 years earlier
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — 2 years earlier
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 15 years later
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 18 years earlier
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 1 year later
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 10 years later
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 21 years earlier
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 8 years earlier
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 67)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 46)
- Michelangelo (aged 44)
- Martin Luther (aged 36)
- Maximilian I (aged 60)
- Moctezuma II (aged 53)
- Guru Nanak (aged 50)
- Vasco da Gama (aged 50)
- Selim I the Grim (aged 49)
- Vasily III (aged 40)