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Stortorget in Stockholm’s Old Town - scene of the Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520[/caption]
In the year 1520, King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden in Sweden (Jan 19), Pope Leo X threatens Martin Luther with excommunication (Jun 15), the Spaniards defeat the Aztecs at Otumba (Jul 20), Christian II makes his triumphant entry into Stockholm (Sep 7) and is crowned king of Sweden (Nov 4), whereupon the Stockholm Bloodbath takes place (Nov 8-10), Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan with crew become the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific through the South American strait (Nov 28) - and all these fine people were born:
1520-0107 Peder Oxe* Danish finance minister - Denmark, Kalmar Union (1575/55) 1520-0130 William More* courtier - Loseley, Surrey, England (1600/80) 1520-0201 1520-0222 Frederick III of Legnica* Polish nobleman/Duke of Legnica (1570/50) 1520-0303 Matthias Flacius* Lutheran reformer - Labin, Istria, Venetian Republic (1575/55) 1520-05xx Per Brahe the Elder* nephew of King Gustav - Sweden, Kalmar Union (1590/70) 1520-0629 Nicolás Factor* Roman Catholic priest/painter - Valencia, Habsburg Spain (1583/63) 1520-0801 Sigismund II Augustus* Grand Duke of Lithuania/King of Poland - Kraków (1572/51) 1520-0810 Madeleine of Valois* French princess/Queen of Scotland as the first spouse of King James V - Saint-Germain-en Laye, Kingdom of France (1537/16) 1520-0821 Bartholomäus Sastrow* German official/notary/mayor - Greifswald, Pomerania (1603/82) 1520-0831 Heinrich Sudermann* German official of the Hanseatic League - Cologne (1591/71) 1520-0913 William Cecil* nobleman/ statesman/chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I - Bourne, Lincolnshire, England (1598/77) 1520-1110 Dorothea of Denmark* princess/ Electress Palatine - Copenhagen, Denmark, Kalmar Union (1580/59) 1520-1206 Barbara Radziwill* Grand Duchess of Lithuania/Queen of Poland - Vilnius or Dubingiai, Lithuania (1551/30) 1520-1224 Martha Leijonhuvfud* politically active noble - Ekeberg, Sweden, Kalmar Union (1584/63) 1520-0 1520-0 1520-0 Updated 4.9.2023 Stockholm Search for another year here