Editing 1523 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[1523 papal conclave|A conclave of 32 cardinals]] begins deliberations in Rome to elect a successor to the late Pope Adrian VI. Three other cardinals arrive on October 6 and balloting begins for a new Pope. [[Niccolò Fieschi]] and Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande fail to receive the necessary majority in initial balloting, and Gianmaria del Monte comes within one vote (26 votes) of being elected. Voting continues for seven weeks before Cardinal Giulio de Medici wins 27 votes.<ref>Frederic J. Baumgartner, ''Behind Locked Doors: A History of the Papal Elections'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) pp.98-101</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Hürrem Pasha]], the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s Governor-General of the [[Damascus Eyalet]] (which includes parts of what will become Syria, Israel, Jordan and Palestine) begins a punitive expedition through Lebanon against the [[Druze]] of [[Chouf]]. During the first campaign, Hürrem's troops burn 43 villages and kill at least 400 Druze.<ref>Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn, ''Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575-1650'' (American University of Beirut, 1985) p.77</ref>
* [[November 19]] &ndash; Following the September 14 death of [[Pope Adrian VI]], Cardinal Giulio de' Medici is elected 219th [[pope]] as [[Pope Clement VII|Clement VII]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Desiderius Erasmus|title=The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1356 to 1534, 1523 to 1524: Letters 1356 to 1534, 1523 to 1524|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYVEgXbiunkC&pg=PA163|date=1 January 1974|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5976-5|pages=163–}}</ref> The election of Cardinal Medici begins an unbroken reign of 44 consecutive Italian Popes over the next 455 years. 
* [[November 26]] &ndash; At Santa Maria in Via Lata, [[Marco Cornaro (cardinal)|Cardinal Marco Cornaro]] carries out the [[Papal coronation|coronation of]] [[Pope Clement VII|Pope Clement]] at the church of [[Santa Maria in Via Lata]] in [[Rome]].
* [[December 6]] &ndash; Setting off from the Mexican Aztec capital of [[Tenochtitlan]] with an army of 550 Spanish soldiers and 120 horses, [[Gómez de Alvarado#Campaigns in New Spain|Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras]] begins the [[Spanish conquest of Guatemala]].<ref>Florine Asselbergs, '' Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala'' (University Press of Colorado, 2008) pp. 87–97</ref>