1521

Five hundred twenty-one

1521 is a year in the early sixteenth century, notable for the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and Martin Luther's excommunication from the Catholic Church.

Like most year numbers, it functions as a noun or adjective: the events of 1521, a 1521 treaty.

historical

Renaissance

European cultural reawakening

ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
LutherProtestant Reformation initiator
CortesIberian legislative assemblies

Magellan · Aztec · conquest · exploration · colonization · Suleiman · Ottoman · Habsburg · Tudor · Henry VIII

chronological

year

Twelve-month duration

dateSpecific day or outing
centuryHundred-year span
sixteenthOrdinal for 16

1520s · era · period · timeline · anno Domini · historical · medieval · early modern · quincentennial · anniversary

Opposites

numerical roundness

15211500

One thousand five hundred

1000 · 2000 · 1600 · 1550 · 500

historical era

15212024

Current calendar year

2000 · the present · antiquity · prehistory

historical significance (1521 as year of events)

15211821

Early 1800s date

1945 · 1776 · 1989 · 1947 · 1960

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