Events

• March - Louis XII of France makes peace with Emperor Maximilian.
• July - Peace between England and France.
• Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melancholia I.

Births

• January 1 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England
• March 8 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1562)
• June 16 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)
• Hosokawa Harumoto, head of Hosokawa clan (died 1563)
• George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish nobleman (died 1562)
• Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker (died 1574)
• Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1571)
• Vesalius, Belgian anatomist (died 1564)

Marriages

• October 9 - Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor

Deaths

• January 2 - William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln (born 1460)
• January 9 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (born 1477)
• January 9 - Anne of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (born 1477)
• February 11 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England
• March 11 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)
• October 25 - William Elphinstone, Scottish statesman (born 1431)

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