1520s
Reformation era begins
The decade from 1520 to 1529.
Like other decade designations, used to locate events, styles, or cultural moments in time: The Protestant Reformation gained momentum in the 1520s.
The format works for any century—1820s, 1920s—though decades before the 1500s rarely get this treatment.
- SuleimanRenowned Ottoman sultan
- HabsburgEuropean imperial dynasty
- Ottoman EmpireTurkish sultanate, 1299-1922
- MachiavelliPolitical realism's founding theorist
Holy Roman Empire · Siege of Vienna · Tudor · Valois · diplomacy · succession
Protestant Reformation founder
- Ninety-Five ThesesAnti-indulgence propositions from 1517
- WittenbergReformation's starting point
- indulgencesExcessive self-granted pleasures
- ProtestantismReformation-era Christian movement
Lutheranism · excommunication · papacy · heresy · Diet of Worms · Calvinism · iconoclasm · predestination
Italian masculine name
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RaphaelRenaissance painter from Urbino
- BotticelliQuattrocento painter from Florence
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
Florence · humanism · patronage · frescoes · perspective · chiaroscuro · classicism · Venice
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
- CortésSpanish conqueror of Mexico
- conquistadorsSpanish colonial soldiers
- New WorldWestern Hemisphere landmasses
caravel · astrolabe · navigation · trade winds · spices · sea routes · cartography · voyages
Henry VIII
- SuleimanRenowned Ottoman sultan
- HabsburgEuropean imperial dynasty
- Ottoman EmpireTurkish sultanate, 1299-1922
Machiavelli · Holy Roman Empire · Siege of Vienna · Tudor · Valois · diplomacy · succession
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation founder
- Ninety-Five ThesesAnti-indulgence propositions from 1517
- WittenbergReformation's starting point
- indulgencesExcessive self-granted pleasures
Protestantism · Lutheranism · excommunication · papacy · heresy · Diet of Worms · Calvinism · iconoclasm · predestination · theology
Leonardo
Italian masculine name
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- RaphaelRenaissance painter from Urbino
- BotticelliQuattrocento painter from Florence
Medici · Florence · humanism · patronage · frescoes · perspective · chiaroscuro · classicism · Venice · Rome
Magellan
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
- CortésSpanish conqueror of Mexico
- conquistadorsSpanish colonial soldiers
New World · caravel · astrolabe · navigation · trade winds · spices · sea routes · cartography · voyages · expeditions
1520s2020s
Third decade, 21st century
21st century · the present · modern era · contemporary times · today
1520sdigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · atomic age · 1620s · Industrial Revolution · age of reason