1525

Years: 1522 1523 1524 - 1525 - 1526 1527 1528
Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
February 10 - Albert of Prussia committed Prussian Homage.
February 24 - Battle of Pavia - Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France because the hurting of his horse by Cesare Hercolani.
March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear
May 15 - Battle of Frankenhausen - Defeat of the rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire by the Lords. End of the Peasants' War.
June 16 - Henry VIII of England creates his illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
June 27 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.
European brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands including the Inca.
Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya State, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado(in what is now Guatemala).
Bubonic Plague in Southern France.
The New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale.
First French embassador in Istanbul.

February 24 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
February 26 - Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (tortured to death)
May 5 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
May 27 - Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (born 1489)
July 22 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
December 30 - Jakob Fugger, German banker (born 1459)
Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (born 1473)
Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca (born 1493)
Franciabigio, Florentine painter (born 1482)
Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer
Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)
Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal

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