Regent of Sweden for the second time. November 14 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon. November 24 – A large army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow overruns Livonia during the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War. December 12 – Alexander Jagiellon becomes King of Poland. December 31 – First Battle of Cannanore: João da Nova fleet engaged the fleet of the Zamorin in a battle outside of the Cannanore harbor, the first Portuguese naval battle in the Indian Ocean. Date unknown The Swiss cantons of Basel and Schaffhausen join the Old Swiss Confederacy. Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese navigator, makes the first documented European landing in North America since c. 1000 A.D. Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailing westward from Venezuela in search of gold, becomes the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama. Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which are below the horizon in Europe. Dhaulpur is taken by Sikandar Lodi. Michelangelo returns to his native Florence, to begin work on the statue David. Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an edition of Virgil. Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt. Births January 16 – Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (d. 1559) January 17 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566) January 24 – Jacob Milich, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1559) February 24 – Sixt Birck, German humanist (d. 1554) March 21 – Anne Brooke, Baroness Cobham, English noble (d. 1558) March 12 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577) May 6 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555) May 17 – Stanisław of Masovia, Polish duke (d. 1524) July 10 – Cho Shik, Korean Confucian scholar and politician (d. 1572) July 18 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526) August 17 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1529) September 18 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, English baron (d. 1563) September 24 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (d. 1576) September 26 – Gian Gabriele I of Saluzzo, Italian abbot, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1548) November 14 – Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia from 1540 to 1561 (d. 1575) December 2 – Queen Munjeong, Korean queen (d. 1565) date unknown Girolamo da