Charles V died on 21 September 1558 in Monastery of Yuste, aged 58. A Habsburg ruler who inherited an enormous collection of territories, Charles was king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, and his realms stretched across Europe and the Americas. His reign saw the conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires by Spanish adventurers, the rise of Protestantism after Luther's appearance at the Diet of Worms in 1521, and wars with France and the Ottoman Empire. He struggled to hold his lands together against rivals and religious division, and agreed to the Peace of Augsburg through his brother Ferdinand. Exhausted, he abdicated in 1556 and retired to a monastery in Spain.
Before and after
- 1557Discovery of platinum
- 24 September 1557Death of Jacques Cartier
- from 17 January 1558 to 26 May 1583Livonian War
- from 23 August 1558 to 26 August 1558Expedition of Mostaganem
- 21 September 1558Death of Charles V
- 1559Founding of University of Geneva
- from 1560 to 1621Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom
- 1560Construction of Humayun's Tomb
- from 9 May 1560 to 14 May 1560Battle of Djerba
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The era
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