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

His Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the " most important single contemporary source for Wolsey's life " which also offers a " detailed picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political events in the 1520s, particularly the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon.

Marija na Škrilinama in the Istrian town of Beram ( 1471 ), painted by Vincent of Kastav ; the painting in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje in Istria by John of Kastav ( 1490 ); and woodcuts designed in the early 1520s by Hans Holbein the Younger and executed by Hans Lützelburger ( published 1538 ).

" Bess of Hardwick " was born " Elizabeth Hardwick " to John Hardwick and his wife, Elizabeth Leake, in the early 1520s.

* The Virgin Appearing to Sts John the Baptist and John the Evangelist ( 1520s, Uffizi Gallery, Florence )

In the French-speaking parts, reformers like William Farel had been preaching the new faith under Bernese protection since the 1520s, but only in 1536, just before John Calvin arrived there, did the city of Geneva convert to Protestantism.

Further generations of Lisle family were buried in the church, although by the time of Sir John Lisle in the early 1520s, space was becoming restricted.

In the late 1520s, Dom João led the opposition to the marriage of John III's brother, Infante Ferdinand, to Dona Guiomar Coutinho, a prominent noble heiress to the great feudal estates of Marialva and Loulé, on the grounds that he had already secretly married her.

Many legends and conjectures have grown up around the notion that the young, unhappily married Wyatt fell in love with the young Anne Boleyn in the early-to-mid 1520s.

Starting in the 1480s, Ava began to disintegrate, and Kale was swallowed up by the Shan State of Mohnyin by the 1520s.

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

The important Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives taught at Corpus during the 1520s while tutor to Mary Tudor, later Mary I of England.

According to food writer Karen Hursh Graber, the initial introduction of rice to Spain from North Africa in the 14th century led to the Spanish introduction of rice to Mexico at the port of Veracruz in the 1520s.

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.

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.

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.

The hand cannon was widely used in Europe and throughout Asia until at least the 1520s, when it was supplanted by matchlock firearms.

By the 1520s, the edges of the doublet met at the center front.

The date of Eleni's death is not entirely certain ; Henze states that she died at an advanced age in the 1520s, but Beckingham and Huntingford argue that the evidence in Alvarez's account provides enough information to date her death to April, 1522.

It is assumed he was born in Yorkshire because of his later connections with the county: He was found first living at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire in the 1520s.

In the 1520s Cardinal Wolsey adopted new renaissance architectural styles at Hampton Court Palace.

Catherine Parr and Margaret had known each other since they both had come to court in the 1520s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.