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​Compromise Candidate Elected - The Aged Adrian

9 January 1522
Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, a sixty two year old Dutchman and former tutor of Charles  is elected  new Pope Adrian VI. Wolsey stood for election as pope but received  few votes. 

Anne Boleyn at English Court

1 March 1522
March Anne is recorded as being present at a  a tournament which opened on 1 March with her sister Mary.

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Battle of Bicocca - French Flee Duchy of Milan

27 April 1522
The Battle of Bicocca or La Bicocca (Italian: Battaglia della Bicocca) was fought on 27 April 1522, during the Italian War of 1521–26. A joint French and Venetian force under Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, was defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army under the supreme command of Prospero Colonna. Lautrec then withdrew from Lombardy, leaving the Duchy of Milan in Imperial hands.



Charles Arrives at Dover on His Way to Spain from Low Countries

Late May 1522
Henry and Charles inspect the English flagship Henry Grace à Dieu 

War Declared on France

29 May 1522
English Herald Clarenceux, Thomas Benolt serves Francis with a declaration of war. Reason include the Duke of Albany's return to Scotland, the French invasion of Navarre and Francis's refusal to continue paying Henry his pension.

Lavish Entertainment in London

6 June 1522
Charles and Henry enter London in great triumph not only like brothers of one mind but in the same attire.The streets were decorated with tapestries, triumphal arches and pageants. The two monarchs discussed their military plans against France

Charles V Entreats to Marry Princess Mary

19 June 1522. 
Charles V and Henry VIII sign the Treaty of Windsor, a pact against France. Princess Mary is betrothed to Charles, Holy Roman Emperor, her cousin and nephew of Katherine of Aragon.

Surrey with English Ships Attacks Brittany 

1 July 1522
Lords High Admiral of England, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey with his English ships attack Brittany coast and sack Morlaix on 1 July . 

Charles Embarks at Southampton Bound for Spain

6 July 1522
Henry travels with Charles  to Southampton and on the way they sign another treaty at Bishops Waltham, Hampshire.  Henry agrees to have an army ready at Calais before 1 August and maintain it in the field until 31 October and Charles agreed to have forces available there to help Henry within six days of the landing.

Surrey is in France

August, September October 1522
Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, appointed to lead  the military campaign in France lands at Calais on 9 August 1522. He linked up with Charles mercenaries from Netherlands on 2 September 1522 and laid waste to Picardy and besieged but did not take Hesdin.The agreement with Charles had been for English troops to ramain in the field until 31 October 1522 but widespread sickness, the weather and lack of supplies forced him to be back in Calais by 14 October 1522.

Albany No Show

Duke of Albany assembled an army in Scotland but having marched to the border his troops refused to attach Carlisle fearing a repeat of Flodden

Rhodes

17 December 1522​
​Rhodes falls to the Turks, a lack of Christian aid is blamed 
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