1520
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Year 1520 (MDXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
- June 15 – Pope Leo X issues the bull Exsurge Domine (Arise O Lord), threatening Martin Luther with excommunication, if he does not recant his position on indulgences and other Catholic doctrines.
- August – Martin Luther writes To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation.
- December 10 – Martin Luther burns a copy of The Book of Canon Law (see Canon Law), and his copy of the Papal bull Exsurge Domine.
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Births
- October 5 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
- Date unknown – Caspar Scheidt, German poet (d. 1565)
- Date unknown – Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver (d. 1582)
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- Jorge de Montemor, Spanish novelist and poet (d. 1561)
- Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish artist (d. c.1590)
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Deaths
- April 6 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
- April 11 – Agostino Chigi, Italian banker and patron of the Renaissance. (b. 1466)
- June 29 – Moctezuma II, 9th Tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztecs, assassinated or possibly killed in a riot, 1502-1520 (b. 1466)
- November 9 – Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
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