All of the Great Powers of Europe and the Middle East were actively fighting numerous wars throughout this period, grouped in rough geographical and chronological terms as the European wars of religion between the 1520s and the 1640s ( including the Thirty Years ' War, the Eighty Years ' War and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ) and the Franco-Spanish War ( 1635 – 1659 );

Blount was the mother of Henry's only acknowledged illegitimate child and, at one point in the 1520s, it was suggested that her son should be named the King's legal heir.

In the 1520s, large-scale extraction of silver from the rich deposits of Mexico's Guanajuato began to be greatly augmented by the silver mines in Mexico's Zacatecas and Bolivia's Potosí from 1546.

Although the practice of leaving one's everyday life to connect on a deeper level with God, be that in the desert ( as with the Desert Fathers ), or in a monastery, is as old as Christianity itself, the practice of spending a specific time away with God is a more modern phenomenon, dating from the 1520s and St. Ignatius of Loyola's composition of the Spiritual Exercises.

With the introduction of the galleon in Portuguese India Armadas over the course of the late 1520s and the 1530s, carracks gradually began to be less armed and became almost exclusively cargo ships ( which is why the Portuguese Carracks were pushed to such large sizes ), leaving any fighting to be done to the galleons.

In the 1520s, when Valencian guilds rebelled against the local nobility in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods, the rebels " saw that the simplest way to destroy the power of the nobles in the countryside would be to free their vassals, and this they did by baptizing them.

Throughout the late 1520s grants continued to be bestowed upon him.

Verdelot, along with Costanzo Festa, is considered to be the father of the madrigal, an a cappella vocal form which emerged in the late 1520s from a convergence of several previous musical streams ( including the frottola, the canzone, the laude, and also including some influence from the more serious style of the motet ).

Swiss historiography has tended to attribute this to the " lesson learned " at Marignano, but at least as effective was the division created by the Swiss Reformation in the 1520s, dividing the Confederacy into two factions which would be occupied with internal hostilities throughout the period of the European Wars of Religion, as well as a number of painful defeats of Swiss mercenary regiments in the decade between 1515 and 1525 ( at Bicocca, Sesia and Pavia ).

In the 1520s silver began to be extracted from the rich deposits at Guanajuato, but it was not until the 1540s, with the opening of the mines at Potosí and Zacatecas, that silver was to become the fabled source of wealth it has assumed in legend.

In contrast, the English Renaissance can only be said to begin, shakily, in the 1520s, and continued until perhaps 1620.

With the vast conquests on the American mainland, which began in the 1520s, it became clear that the audiencia system would not be sufficient to effectively run the overseas government.

Whittington's grammars continued to be printed during the 1520s, usually by Wynkyn de Worde but briefly also by Richard Pynson.

The Renaissance architecture of Italian builders of the 1520s and 1530s can also be seen in the former town-hall.

These ambitious Kremlin cathedrals ( among them the Dormition and Archangel Cathedrals ) were imitated throughout Russia during the 16th century, with new edifices tending to be larger and more ornate than their predecessors ( for example, the Hodegetria Cathedral of Novodevichy Convent from the 1520s ).

Relations between Henry VIII and Mary were strained in the late 1520s when she opposed the King's attempt to obtain an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, whom Mary had known for many years.

* The Scrutinio Room is in the wing built between the 1520s and 1540s during the dogate of Francesco Foscari ( 1423 – 57 ), facing the Piazzeta.

The pre-Hispanic city of Tzintzuntzan extended from Lake Pátzcuaro to the hills just to the east and had a population of between 25, 000 and 30, 000 when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s.

Sir Rice's work was confined to the southern block and was completed between the 1520s and 30s.

The Retreat was popularised in Roman Catholicism by the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ), whose founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, as a layman began, in the 1520s, directing others in making ( participating in ) the exercises.

The late 1520s was a flurry of activity for Jud and the Swiss Reformers as they were dealing with Anabaptism, the resurgence of Catholicism in other territories, and the Eucharistic controversies with the Lutherans.

** Reformation in Switzerland, the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, during the 1520s

Elizabeth was a moderate Protestant ; she was the daughter of Anne Boleyn, who played a key role in the English Reformation in the 1520s.

The Protestant Reformation took hold in Konstanz in the 1520s, headed by Ambrosius Blarer.

The key events during his reign were the contest with the Ottoman Empire, whose great advance into Central Europe began in the 1520s, and the Protestant Reformation, which resulted in several wars of religion.

The Protestant Reformation came to Görlitz in the early 1520s and by the last half of the 16th century, it and the surrounding vicinity, became almost completely Lutheran.

The Black Company or the Black Troops was a unit of Franconian mercenaries during the Peasant's Revolt in the 1520s during the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate ( Mark Reust ) and population of Zürich in the 1520s.

The Nordic observation of St. Lucy is first attested in the Middle Ages, and continued after the Protestant Reformation in the 1520s and 1530s, although the modern celebration is only about 200 years old.

While at the court of Emperor Lebna Dengel in the 1520s, he witnessed an embassy from the Nubian Christians, who came to the Emperor asking for priests, bishops, and other personnel desperately needed to keep Christianity alive in their land.

In the 1520s he returned to Regensburg as a wealthy man, and became a member of the city's council.

Following Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas for Spain, the Spanish sent numerous expeditions to the region, and they began their conquest of Maya lands in the 1520s.

Beginning in the 1520s, the Caribbean Sea was raided by increasingly numerous French pirates.

Spanish interest in Hispaniola began to wane in the 1520s, as more lucrative gold and silver deposits were found in Mexico and South America.

Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, with Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar sighting an atoll in August 1526.

A number of the earliest Mannerist artists who had been working in Rome during the 1520s fled the city after the Sack of Rome in 1527.

In the 1520s, while Spanish conquistadors were invading Mexico, they introduced a variety of animals, including cattle, chickens, goats, sheep and pigs.

Fortunately for posterity, this project, occupying the artist for much of the 1520s and 1530s, was more fully realized.

This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions ( see External links below for facsimiles and translations ) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations.

Thus it became " politics " in Middle English c. 1520s ( see the Concise Oxford Dictionary ).

In the 1520s and 1530s, the Spanish crown had ordered surveys of the isthmus to determine the feasibility of such a canal, but the idea was soon abandoned.

Smallpox also ravaged Mexico in the 1520s, killing 150, 000 in Tenochtitlán alone, including the emperor, and Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors.

His commentary on the Talmud, which covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud ( a total of 30 tractates ), has been included in every edition of the Talmud since its first printing by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520s.

Traditionally, he has been portrayed as a humanist whose enthusiasm for biblical scholarship prepared him for the adoption of Lutheran ideas, which were spreading during the 1520s.

By the 1520s, Henry still did not have a son to name as heir and he took this as a sure sign of God ’ s anger and made overtures to the Vatican about an annulment.

Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.

Zwingli started the Swiss Reformation at the time when he was the main preacher in the 1520s, at the Grossmünster.

Peter Trickett, for example, argues in Beyond Capricorn that the Portuguese explorer Cristóvão de Mendonça reached New Zealand in the 1520s.

The most enduring system of convoys were the Spanish treasure fleets, that sailed from the 1520s until 1790.

The sense of " to have a strong sexual desire ( for or after )" is first seen in biblical use in the 1520s.

Norway took no part in the events which led to Swedish independence from Denmark in the 1520s.

* Spanish Colonial style 1520s – c.

This lasted until the 1520s, when the earls passed out of royal favour, but the 9th earl was reinstated in the 1530s.