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| Years: 1522 1523 1524 - 1525 - 1526 1527 1528 | |
| Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- 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 Tribut.
- 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.
- 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.
Births
- January 6 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (died 1602)
- October 1 - Tadeás Hájek, physician to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1600)
- Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (died 1560)
- Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (died 1603)
- Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (died 1586)
- Johann Georg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (died 1594)
- Lelio Sozini, Humanist and Reformer (died 1562)
- Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor
Deaths
- February 24 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (born 1488)
- February 26 - Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec Emperor (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, courtier and diplomat (born 1469)
- December 20 - Jakob Fugger, significant German banker of the Fugger family (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, radical reformation preacher and a weaver by trade
- Leonor of Viseu, Princess and later Queen of Portugalaf:1525
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