are observed in various walls and towers. October 21–22 – The 1522 Vila Franca earthquake takes place in the municipality of Vila Franca do Campo, at this time the provincial capital, located on São Miguel Island, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. November – The Diet of Nuremberg opens. December 18 – The Ottomans finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets. December 20 – Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights in Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta, and become known as the Knights of Malta. Date unknown The third edition of Erasmus's Greek Textus Receptus of the New Testament, Novum Testamentum (with parallel Latin text), is published in Basel. Chinese Ming dynasty War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San (Pedro Yang) and Dai Ming. Australia is sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça, who maps the continent and names it Jave la Grande ("The Greater Java"), according to the theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia. The Portuguese ally with the Sultanate of Ternate and begin the construction of Fort Kastela. The Portuguese, allied with King Ilato of the Goratalo kingdom, construct the Otanaha Fortress. Births January 22 – Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, (d. 1545) February 2 Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565) Francesco Alciati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1580) March 10 – Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyō (d. 1564) March 22 – Daniel Brendel von Homburg, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1582) March 28 – Albert Alcibiades, German prince (d. 1557) April 23 – Catherine of Ricci, Italian prioress (d. 1590) May 24 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571) June 1 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590) July 5 – Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1586) July 13 – Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1575) July 25 – Anna of Lorraine (d. 1568) July 31 – Charles II de Croÿ, Belgian duke (d. 1551) August 4 – Udai Singh II, King of Mewar (d. 1572) August 28 – Severinus of Saxony, Prince of Saxony; died young (d. 1533) September 11 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605) October 4 – Gabriele Paleotti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1597)