off Newfoundland. He names them Islands of the 11,000 Virgins, in honour of Saint Ursula. October 26 – Charles V is crowned King of Germany. November 1–4 – Christian II is crowned king of Sweden. The coronation is followed by a three-day feast in Stockholm. November 7 – At the end of the third day of Christian's coronation feast, several leading figures of the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion are imprisoned, and tried for high treason. November 8–10 – Stockholm Bloodbath: 82 noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, are executed by beheading. November 28 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait is later named the Strait of Magellan). December 10 – Martin Luther burns a copy of The Book of Canon Law (see Canon Law), and his copy of the Papal bull Exsurge Domine. Date unknown The Franciscan friar Matteo Bassi is inspired to return to the primitive life of solitude and penance, as practiced by St. Francis, giving rise to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Duarte Barbosa returns to Cananor. Aleksandra Lisowska (Roxelana) is given as a gift to Suleiman I on the occasion of his accession to the throne. King Manuel I creates the public mail service of Portugal, the Correio Público. Births January 7 – Peder Oxe, Danish finance minister (d. 1575) January 30 – William More, English courtier (d. 1600) February 22 – Frederick III of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (d. 1570) March 3 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575) June 29 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish artist (d. 1583) July 27 – Gonzalo II Fernández de Córdoba, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1578) August 1 – King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (d. 1572) August 10 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (d. 1537) August 21 – Bartholomäus Sastrow, German official (d. 1603) August 31 – Heinrich Sudermann, German politician (d. 1591) September 13 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman, chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1598) October 5 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589) November 10 – Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Princess of Denmark, Sweden and Norway