1500s
- since around 1500 - The Faroes are exposed to pirate raids from the British Isles and western France, later also Barbary (then a vassal of the Ottoman Empire).
- around 1520 - Joachim Wullewever from Hamburg becomes reeve over the Faroes on behalf of King Christian II of Denmark.
- 1524 - After going into exile, Christian II offers the Faroes and Iceland to Henry VIII of England as collateral for a loan. Henry denies. Historians believe this saved the two countries from losing their languages, as it happened with the Norn language in Shetland and Orkney.
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