1527

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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s

Years: 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 - 1527 - 1528 1529 1530 1531 1532


[edit] Events

  • January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.
  • May 6 - Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
  • May 16 - Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
  • Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands completed; first Guatemala City founded (Ciudad Vieja).
  • Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo invades Yucatán.
  • Battle of Tokay: Ferdinand of Austria defeats John Zapolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Turks for help.
  • Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.
  • Ahmed Gragn of Somalia defeats the Ethiopian army with his new firearms.
  • People of the University of Wittenberg flee plague to Jena.
  • Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK is founded by Bishop John Vesey.

[edit] Births

  • March 21 - Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (died 1558)
  • April 14 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer and geographer (died 1598)
  • July 13 - John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (died 1608)
  • July 31 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1576)
  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian artist (died 1593)
  • Charles of Guise, French Cardinal and member of the powerful House of Guise (died 1574)
  • Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (died 1590)
  • Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (died 1591)
  • Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (died 1581)
  • Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (died 1575)
  • Philip II of Spain

[edit] Deaths

  • January 21 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (born 1489)
  • June 21 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (born 1469)
  • July 28 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer (born 1460)
  • Boabdil, last Moorish king of Granada (of the Nasrid dynasty)
  • Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (born 1490)
  • Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (born 1433)
  • Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (born 1458)
  • Felix Manz, co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich
  • Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect
  • Jan "Ciezki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman