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1525

February 20
  • Swiss and German mercenaries desert François I's army. [1]
February 24
  • Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king, François I caught taken/8700 killed. [1] [1443.27]
March 20
  • Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants. [1]
April 3
  • Giovanni Rucellai Italian poet (Le Api), dies at age 49. [1]
May 5
  • Death of Friederich III (the Wise), Elector of Saxony in Lochau, Germany, protector of Martin Luther after the imperial ban of 1521, patron of Albrecht Dürer, and Luchas Cranach the Elder, founder of the University of Wittenberg in 1502. [1] [37]
May 10
  • Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague. [1]
May 12
  • Battle at Böblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Württembergse farmers. [1]
May 15
  • German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war. [1]
May 17
  • Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels. [1]
May 27
  • Thomas Münzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed in Mühlhausen. [1] [37]
December 30
  • Jacob Fugger German banker/merchant, dies at age 66. [1]

1526

January 14
  • Charles V and Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid; Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders. [1]
February 8
  • Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die. [1]
February 27
  • Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes). [1]
March 10
  • Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal. [1]
March 17
  • French king François I freed from Spain. [1]

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March 26
  • King François I returns Spanish captivity to France. [1]
April 21
  • Battle at Panipat Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi. [1]
April 22
  • First slave revolt occurs in South Carolina. [1]
April 27
  • Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi. [1]
May 2
  • German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League. [1]
May 21
  • Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology. [1]
May 22
  • Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac. [1]
August 4
  • Juan Sebastián Cano Spanish explorer, dies. [1]
August 29
  • Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács. [1]
November 9
  • Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg. [1]
December 17
  • Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia. [1]
  • Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition. [1]

1527

February 24
  • Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia. [1]
March 16
  • Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen. [1]
April 30
  • England and France sign treaty of Westminster. [1]
May 6
  • Karel van Bourbon military governor (Lombardije), dies at age 37. [1]
  • Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending the Renaissance. [1]
May 16
  • Florence becomes a republic. [1]
May 17
  • Pánfilo de Narvaéz departs to explore Florida. [1]
May 30
  • The University of Marburg is founded (in Germany). [1] [37]
August 3
  • The first known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland. [5]
December 6
  • Pope Clemens VII flees to Orvieto. [1]
December 12
  • Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice. [1]

1528

January 12
  • Gustav Eriksson Vasa is formally crowned King of Sweden. [7]
January 22
  • England and France declare war on Emperor Charles V. [1]
January 28
  • Philips of Cleve ruler of Ravenstein, dies. [1]
February 12
  • Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power. [1]
February 14
  • Edzard I the Great count of Austria-E Frisia (1494-1528), dies at age 66. [1]
February 24
  • János Zápolyai, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerainty. [1]
February 29
  • Patrick Hamilton Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake. [1]
March 5
  • Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague. [1]
May 1
  • Pánfilo the Narvaéz begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida. [1]

1529

January 7
  • Peter Vischer the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies. [1]
April 16
  • Louis de Berquin French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake. [1]
April 19
  • Second Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism. [1]
  • John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer] German physician, dies at about age 55. [1]
April 22
  • Treaty of Saragosa Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere. [1]
May 6
  • Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals. [1]
May 27
  • 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake. [1]

1530

February 24
  • First imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V. [1]
March 7
  • King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church. [1]
April 18
  • François Lambert d'Avignon French church reformer, dies at about age 43. [1]
April 24
  • Jacopo Sannazaro Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies. [1]
June 25
  • The 28 articles of the Lutheran churches are presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (The Augsburg Confession). [37]
November 29
  • Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII, dies. [1]
December 1
  • Margaretha of Austria governess of the Netherlands, dies at age 51. [1]
December 25
  • Babur emperor of Delhi, dies. [1]
December 26
  • Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at age 47. [1]

1531

January 5
  • Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry. [1]
January 16
  • English Reformation parliament's second sitting. [1]
January 22
  • Andrea del Sarto Italian artist, dies at age 43. [1]
January 26
  • In Lisbon, Portugal, an Intensity X earthquake occurs, claiming 30,000 deaths. [1] [53]
January 31
  • Kings Ferdinand of Austria/János Zápolyai of Hungary accept each other. [1]
February 11
  • Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England. [1]
February 26
  • Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000. [1]
February 27
  • Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union. [1]
March 20
  • Sicke Freerks/Frericx [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded. [1]
April 5
  • Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop. [1]
May 31
  • "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted. [1]
December 6
  • John Volkertsz Trimaker Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded. [1]

1532

March 18
  • English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome. [1]
April 26
  • Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna. [1]
May 16
  • Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor. [1] [241.9]
November 16
  • Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. Pizarro's 200 men massacre five thousand Incans and capture Atahualpa. [1] [129]

1533

January 25
  • England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date). [1]
March 30
  • Henry VIII divorces his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. [1]
  • Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury. [1]
April 10
  • Frederik I King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at age 61. [1]
May 23
  • King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null and void. [1]
May 28
  • England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage. [1]
June 1
  • Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England. [241.9]
July 11
  • Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII. [1]
August 29
  • Death of Atahualpa, captured king of the Inca Empire, executed by strangulation. [1] [129]
September 7
  • Birth of Elizabeth to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; Queen Elizabeth I of England 1558-1603. [1] [419.70]
December 3
  • Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at age 54. [1]

1534

January 24
  • François I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy. [1]
February 26
  • Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht. [1]
March 23
  • Aragón legal. [1]
March 26
  • Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea. [1]
April 17
  • Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower. [1]
April 20
  • Elizabeth Barton [Nun of Kent] British prophet, is executed. [1]
May 10
  • French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland. [1]
May 12
  • Württemberg becomes Lutheran. [1]
May 28
  • Dirk Martens Flemish printer/humanist, dies at about age 83. [1]
June 9
  • Jacques Cartier first sails into mouth of Saint Lawrence River. [1]
December 4
  • Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad. [1]
December 6
  • Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish. [1]

1535

January 6
  • City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro. [1]
January 15
  • Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church. [1]
January 18
  • Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru. [1]
February 10
  • Twelve nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets. [1]
February 18
  • Agrippa von Nettesheim German royal astrologer, dies at age 48. [1]
  • Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim physician/theologian, dies. [1]
March 1
  • Bernardo Accolti [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies. [1]
March 10
  • Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galápagos Islands. [1]
March 28
  • Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked and destroyed. [1]
April 29
  • John Houghton English, executed. [1]
May 11
  • Queen Juana of Spain signs a decree establishing a mint in New Spain. [669.49] [1042.723]
June 24
  • Anabaptists Protestants conquerered and disbanded. [1]
(month unknown)
  • Galapagos islands discovered by Spanish bishop of Panama, Tomás de Berlanga, first human visitor. [1616.58]
July 1
  • Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason. [1]
July 6
  • Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason. [1]
August 15
  • Asunción, Paraguay founded. [1]
August 31
  • Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII. [1]
October 2
  • Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal, Quebec). [1] [5]

1536

January 6
  • Baldassare Peruzzi Italian architect/painter, dies. [1]
January 7
  • Catherine of Aragon first wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies. [1]
January 17
  • François Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III. [1]
February 2
  • Pedro de Mendoza finds the Argentine city of Buenos Aires. [1]
February 3
  • García de Resende Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies. [1]
February 18
  • France and Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel. [1]
March 16
  • Ibrahim Pasha grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about age 45. [1]
April 14
  • English king Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries. [1]
May 2
  • King Henry VIII accuses Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest with Lord Rochford. [1]
May 6
  • King Henry VIII orders bible be placed in every church. [1]
May 17
  • Anne Boleyn's four "lovers" executed. [1]
May 19
  • Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded. [1] [241.9]
  • Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded. [1]
May 23
  • Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition. [1]
May 30
  • English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour. [1] [696.39]
June 15
  • Daughter Mary signs a document admitting her parents' marriage had been unlawful, that she was illegitimate, and she recognizes King Henry VIII as Supreme Head in Earth under Christ of the Church in England. [696.39]
(month unknown)
  • The Mexico City Mint, first mint to produce coins in the New World, begins striking silver coins. [434.126]
July 18
  • Pope's authority declared void in England. [1]
November 3
  • Royal Spanish decree approves the Santo Domingo Mint. [541.36]
December 22
  • English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal. [1]

1537

January 7
  • Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated. [1]
February 9
  • Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England. [1]
February 19
  • Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike. [1]
March 17
  • French troops invade Flanders. [1]
April 8
  • Willem Aerts Flemish architect, dies. [1]
August 15
  • Asunción city is founded. [995.134]
October 24
  • Jane Seymour third wife of Henry VIII, dies. [1]

1538

January 27
  • States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy. [1]
February 12
  • Albrecht Altdorfer German painter, dies at about age 57. [1]
February 16
  • Everhard/Erardus van de Mark prince-bishop of Liege, dies at age 65. [1]
February 24
  • King Ferdinand of Austria and King János Zápolyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein. [1]
February 26
  • Worp van Thabor Frisian abbott of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), dies. [1]
March 21
  • Hugo earl of Leisnig, Governor of Frisia, dies at about age 79. [1]
April 9
  • Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union. [1]
May 26
  • Genève throws out Calvijn. [1]
August 6
  • Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. [5]
December 16
  • King François I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants. [1]
December 17
  • Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII. [1]

1539

February 1
  • Emperor Karel and King François I sign anti-English treaty. [1]
February 15
  • Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo. [1]
February 19
  • Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czechoslovakia), expelled. [1]
April 19
  • Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt. [1]
May 28
  • Hernando de Soto lands in Florida. [1]
May 30
  • Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida. [1]
June 3
  • Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain. [1] [5]
December 29
  • Saint Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning. [1]

End of 1525-1539. Next: 1540.

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