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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; In an unprecedented move, [[Pope Leo X]] increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals, [[Cardinals created by Leo X|naming 31 people to the cardinalate]] including the Dutch-born Adriaan van Utrecht, bishop of Tortosa, who will later become [[Pope Adrian VI]].<ref>{{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=Consistories for the creation of Cardinals, 16th Century (1503-1605): Leo X (1513-1521)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/consistories-xvi.htm#LeoX|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |accessdate=|publisher=[[Florida International University]]|oclc=53276621}}</ref> 
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] merchant [[Fernão Pires de Andrade]] meets [[Ming Dynasty]] Chinese officials through an interpreter, at the [[Pearl River (China)|Pearl River]] estuary and lands, at what is now in the jurisdiction of Hong Kong. Although the first European trade expeditions to China took place in [[1513]] and [[1516]] by [[Jorge Álvares]] and [[Rafael Perestrello]], respectively, Andrade's mission is the first official diplomatic mission of a European power to China, commissioned by a ruler of Europe ([[Manuel I of Portugal]]).
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Yunus Pasha]], the [[List of Ottoman grand viziers|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] and the Ottoman Governor of Egypt after leading the Egyptian conquest, is fired by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I and then executed by decapitation.