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Year '1526' (MDXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1526

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1526

January - June

★ January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.

★ April 21 - First battle of Panipat: Babur becomes Moghul (or Mughal) emperor of India, captures Delhi, and invades northern India, beginning the Mughal Empire, which would last until 1857.

★ May 22 - Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence.

★ May 24 - Transit of Venus, the last one before optical filters allowed astronomers to observe them.

★ June 9 - Emperor Go-Nara ascends to the throne of Japan.

July - December

★ July 24 - Milan is captured by the Spanish.

★ August 29 - Battle of Mohács. The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who is killed in the retreat. Suleiman takes Buda, while Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and John Zapolya, Prince of Transylvania, dispute over the succession. As a result of the battle, Dubrovnik achieves independence, although acknowledges Turkish overlordship.

Undated

★ First official translation is made of the New Testament of the Bible into Swedish (cf 1541).

★ First complete printed translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany about the spring of 1526.

★ Gunsmith Mastro Bartolomeo Beretta establishes the Beretta gun company, which is still in business today, making it one of the oldest corporations in the world.

Births

★ January 1 - Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin-America, patron saint of Colombia (d. 1581)

★ February 19 - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (died 1609)

★ March 4 - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (d. 1596)

★ April 12 - Muretus, French humanist (died 1585)

★ May 21 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)

★ November 1 - Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of John III of Sweden (died 1583)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Ikoma Chikamasa, daimyo in the Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo period (died 1603)

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★ Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (died 1608)

★ ''probable''

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★ Taqi al-Din, Muslim scientist (died 1585)

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★ Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (died 1563)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 19 - Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (born 1501)

★ February 1 - Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (born 1460)

★ February 23 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies (born c1479)

★ March 30 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (born 1471)

★ April 21 - Ibrahim Lodi, last Sultan of Delhi (died in battle)

★ May 19 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (born 1464)

★ August 4 - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (born 1476)

★ August 29 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (born 1506)

★ October 18 - Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (born 1475)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, sultan of Adal (assassinated)

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★ Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, founder of the Spanish colony of Nicaragua

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★ Conrad Grebel, co-founder of the Anabaptist movement (born 1498)
: ''See also .''