1506 - Events.
January 21 - Pope Julius II founds the Swiss Guard
Second outbreak of the sweating sickness in England
Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.
Hernán Cortés, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22.
The statue Laocoön and his Sons is discovered in Rome.
1506 - Births.
February 2 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
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1526 in science
1526 - Events.
January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.
May 22 - Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence.
July 24 - Milan is captured by the Spanish.
August 29 - Battle of Mohács. The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I ...
