Siege of Vienna
Suleiman the Magnificent reaches the heart of Europe
In September 1529 Suleiman I's army, which had just taken Buda, laid siege to Vienna and its small garrison. Early cold, rain and lack of supplies forced the Ottomans to lift the siege after three weeks; their conquests in Europe never went beyond Vienna.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1526–1867 Atlantic slave trade — 3 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1514 Capture of Smolensk — 15 years earlier
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 18 years later
Middle East
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 9 years earlier
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — same year
Asia
- 1510 Portugal takes Goa — 19 years earlier
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 18 years earlier
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 3 years earlier
Americas
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 10 years earlier
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 8 years earlier
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 3 years later
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 13 years later
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 56)
- Michelangelo (aged 54)
- Martin Luther (aged 46)
- Erasmus (aged 63)
- Guru Nanak (aged 60)
- Vasily III (aged 50)
- Babur (aged 46)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 45)
- Hernán Cortés (aged 44)
- Francysk Skaryna (aged 39)