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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[La Noche Triste]] (Night of Sorrow): The forces of [[Cuitláhuac]], [[Aztec]] ruler of [[Tenochtitlan]], gain a major victory against the forces of [[conquistador]] [[Hernán Cortés]]. This results in the death of about 400 conquistadors, and some 2,000 of their [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] allies. However, Cortés and the most skilled of his men manage to escape and later regroup.
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Battle of Otumba|Otumba]] near Lake Texcaco: The [[Spanish Empire|Spaniards]] defeat the [[Aztecs]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Vincent Grancsay|title=Arms & Armor: Essays from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1920-1964|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQo4AQAAIAAJ|year=1986|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-87099-338-1|page=207}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Magellan]] maroons the two surviving people who had attempted a mutiny against him, Captain [[Juan de Cartagena]] and Father Pedro Sánchez de la Reina, placing them on an island off of the coast of Argentina and providing them with a small supply of ship's biscuits and drinking water. Cartagena and Sanchez are never heard from again.<ref name=Beaglehole/>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; After wintering in [[Patagonia]] in Argentina, the [[Magellan expedition]] resumes its attempt to become the first crew to sail around the world.<ref name=bergreen>{{cite book|author=Laurence Bergreen|title=Over the Edge of the World|publisher=Harper Perennial, 2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/overedgeofworl00berg/page/163 163]|isbn=978-0-06-621173-2|date=2003-10-14|url=https://archive.org/details/overedgeofworl00berg/page/163|author-link=Laurence Bergreen}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] &ndash; The French warrior [[René of Savoy]] departs from [[Marseille]] on his flagship, ''Sainte Marie de Bonaventure'' on a four-month mission to protect the [[Knights Hospitaller]] against an attack by the Ottoman Turks.
* [[August]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther]] publishes ''[[To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mullett |first1=Michael A. |title=Martin Luther |date=15 September 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-64861-1 |page=134 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzaDBAAAQBAJ&dq=To+the+Christian+Nobility+of+the+German+Nation+martin+luther+%22august+1520%22&pg=PA134 |access-date=22 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Christian II]] makes his triumphant entry into [[Stockholm]], which had surrendered to him a few days earlier.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gfrörer |first1=August Friedrich |title=Gustav Adolph: könig von Schweden und seine Zeit |date=1863 |publisher=Adolph Krabbe |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFcorQs8U9gC&dq=%227+september+1520%22+christian+ii+stockholm&pg=PA3 |access-date=22 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref> Sten Sture's widow [[Christina Gyllenstierna]], who has led the fight after Sten's death, and all other persons in the resistance against the Danes, are granted amnesty and are pardoned for their involvement in the resistance.
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Suleiman the Magnificent|Suleiman I]] succeeds his father [[Selim I]] as [[Ottoman Emperor|Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=George |title=A History of Cyprus |date=23 September 2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-02064-0 |page=834 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcEOVAfVXOEC&dq=Suleiman+sultan+%2222+september+1520%22&pg=PA834 |access-date=22 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> He is officially crowned on September 30.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Emecen |first1=Feridun |title=Sultan Sulaiman Al-Qanuni: Penguasa Dua Daratan dan Dua Lautan |date=12 April 2022 |publisher=Pustaka Al-Kautsar |isbn=978-979-592-969-7 |pages=28–29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7yGEAAAQBAJ&q=%2230%20september%201520%22 |access-date=22 July 2023 |language=id}}</ref>