1525

Year '1525' (MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1525

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1525

January - June

★ 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.

★ April 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 after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.


★ March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) - Giovanni da Verrazzano 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.

July - December

★ July 29 - Santa Marta, Colombia, was founded by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas and was the first city to be founded in Colombia.

Undated

★ 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 spreads in southern France.

★ The New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale.

★ First French ambassador arrives in Istanbul.

Births

★ January 6 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (died 1602)

★ January 29 - Lelio Sozzini, Humanist and Reformer (died 1562)

★ September 11 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1598)

★ September 25 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)

★ October 1 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (died 1600)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Maharal of Prague, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher (died 1609)

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★ Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (died 1560)

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★ Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (died 1586)

★ ''probable''

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★ Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1569)

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★ Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (died 1603)

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★ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (died 1594)

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★ Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor (died 1579)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 24 - Franciabigio, Florentine painter (born 1482)

★ February 24

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★ Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (born c1488)

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★ Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer (born 1470)

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★ Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)

★ February 28 - Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (executed) (born c1502)

★ 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 (born c1456)

★ November 17 - Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)

★ December 30 - Jakob Fugger, German banker (born 1459)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer

★ ''probable''

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★ Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (born 1473)
: ''See also .''