Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s Years: 1517 1518 1519 1520 1521 - 1522 - 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 Events April 22 - Battle of Bicocca - French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory. July 28 - Beginning of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I's siege of the Knights of St. John in Rhodes. September 6 - The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. December 18 - The Turks finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets December 20 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. First Diet of Nuremberg Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI Births March 28 - Albert The Warlike Deaths \n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.