Europe
- Khanate of Astrakhan - Qasim II of Astrakhan (1504–1532)
- Khanate of Crimea - Saadet I Giray (1524–1532)
- Denmark–Norway - Frederick I (1523–1533)
- Duchy of Schleswig - Christian III (1523–1559) and Frederick I (1490–1533) in condominial rule
- Kingdom of England - Henry VIII (1509–1547)
- Kingdom of France - Francis I (1515–1547)
- Holy Roman Empire - Charles V (1519–1556)
- Duchy of Holstein - Christian III (1523–1559) and Frederick I (1490–1533) in condominial rule
- Duchy of Mantua - Federico II (1500–1540)
- Duchy of Milan - Francesco II Sforza (1525–1535)
- Duchy of Savoy - Charles III (1504–1553)
- Malta - Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (began rule of Malta in 1530)
- Duchy of Naxos - John IV Crispo (1517–1564)
- Polish–Lithuanian union - Sigismund the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (1506–1548)
- Ottoman (Turkish) Empire - Süleyman I, the Magnificent (1520–1566)
- Kingdom of Portugal - John III (1521–1557)
- Grand Duchy of Moscow - Vasili III (1505–1533)
- Kingdom of Scotland - James V (1513–1542)
- Kingdom of Spain - Charles I (1516–1556)
- Kingdom of Sweden - Gustav I Vasa (1521–1560)
- Republic of Venice - Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (1523–1538)
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“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about ones heroic ancestors. Its astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldnt stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.”
—James Baldwin (19241987)
“What helps it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty scorn which mockd the smart,
Through Europe to the Aetolian shore
The pageant of his bleeding heart?
That thousands counted every groan,
And Europe made his woe her own?”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)