1503 > Giuliano della Rovere, a nephew of Sixtus IV, and a Franciscan, become pope under a name, Julius II, which alluses to Caesar. He aims at "mastering all of the human comedy". On the 29th, he appoints Wrham archbishop of Canterbury

1509 > during Mass of all-Saints, Julius II inaugurates the Sixtine Chapel, where Michelangelo's masterpiece is first shown to the public

1514 > More is elected "Lent Reader" for Lincoln Inn: it is the summit of the academic ladder in London. He is for the second time Lincoln Inn's "Governor", and besides, until 1517, "Reader" at Furnival Inn

1516 > Pieter Gillis dedicates "Utopia" to Jerome Busleiden