Events

• June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire.
• August 12 - Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Orange. The Medici are restored in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de Medici.
• Knights of Malta are formed when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Pope Clement VIII.
• Ducal palace of Celle constructed.
• Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition to patrol the Brazilian coast, banish the French, and create the first colonial towns: São Vicente and São Paulo.
• Austrian forces capture Gran in Hungary, and raid as far as Buda.
• Copernicus presents his sun-based system.

Births

• February 18 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1578)
• May 7 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French protestant general (died 1569)
• July 3 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (died 1601)
• August 25 - Ivan IV of Russia (died 1584)
• September 30 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
• November 1 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (died 1563)
• November 6 - Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (died 1576)
• Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (died 1589)
• Christopher Bathory, Prince of Transylvania (died 1581)
• Jean Bodin, French jurist (died 1596)
• Pey de Garros, Provençal poet
• Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki, Polish bishop, political thinker and philosopher (died 1607)
• Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (died 1566)
• Moses Isserles, rabbi and Talmudist (died 1572)
• Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander during the Sengoku Period
• Koriki Kiyonaga, daimyo in Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo period (died 1608)
• Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (died 1584)
• Ralph Lane, English explorer (died 1603)
• Claude Le Jeune, French composer (died 1600)
• Joseph Boniface de La Molle, lover of Marguerite de Valois (died 1574)
• Gabriel Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (died 1574)
• François de Montmorency (died 1579)
• Israel ben Moses Najara, Jewish liturgical poet (died 1599)
• Jean Nicot, French diplomat and scholar (died 1606)
• Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman (died 1603)
• Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain and rebel (died 1567)
• Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chieftain of Tyrone (died 1595)
• Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (diest 1568)
• Nicholas Sander, English Catholic propagandist (died 1581)
• Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest and chess analyst (died 1580)
• Josias Simmler, Swiss theologian and classicist (died 1576)
• Mordecai Yoffe, author of Levush Malkhut (died 1612)

See also Category: 1530 births.

Deaths

• April 27 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (born 1458)
• August 2 - Kano Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate (born 1434)
• November 29 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, British statesman
• December 1 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (born 1480)
• December 26 - Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire (born 1483)
• Joan, princess of Castile
• Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain (born 1489)
• Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (born 1465)
• Fernando Lopes, Protuguese prisoner and first permanent resident of Saint Helena
• Quentin Matsys, Flemish painter (born 1466)
• Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (born 1460)

See also Category: 1530 deaths.

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