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Feb 05 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna. 
Feb 16 Battle at Valeggio French troops beat Venetianen
Feb 19 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
Feb 22 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60.
Mar 05 Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker.
Apr 03 Richard Pafraet, Dutch printer, dies
Apr 10 James V, king of Scotland (1513-42)
Apr 10 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen.
Apr 11 Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
Apr 11 Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle.
May 03 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
May 03 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen (18th ecumenical council) in Rome
May 05 Geradus Mercator, German map maker is born.
May 21 Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
May 26 Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies.
Aug 02 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48
Aug 10 Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
Oct 15 Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72.
Oct 19 Martin Luther is recorded as becoming a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
Oct 21 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg
Nov 01 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
Nov 01 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, is exhibited
Nov 07 Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence.
Nov 16 Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded.
Nov 17 Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered.
Dec 27 The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World.
