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Year '1527' (MDXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1527

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1527

January - June

★ January 1 - Parliament on Cetin. Ferdinand of Austria was elected King of Croatia.

★ January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.

★ March 17 - Battle of Khanwa, one of three major Moghul victories leading to the domination of northern India.

★ 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 - In Florence, the Piagnon, a group devoted to the memory of Girolamo Savonarola, drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic that lasts until 1530.

July - December

★ August 3 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

★ August 20 - 60 Anabaptists meet at the Martyrs' Synod.

Undated

★ Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands completed; first Guatemala City founded (Ciudad Vieja).

★ Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo invades Yucatán.

★ Battle of Tokay - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats John Zápolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Turks for help.

★ Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.

★ Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of Somalia defeats the Ethiopian army with his new firearms.

★ Members of the University of Wittenberg flee to Jena in fear of the bubonic plague.

★ Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK is founded by Bishop John Vesey.

Births

★ February 17 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (died 1574)

★ March 21 - Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (died 1558)

★ April 14 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish 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)

★ October 21 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian artist (died 1593)

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★ Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (died 1591)

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★ Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (died 1581)

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★ Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (died 1575)

★ ''probable''

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★ Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator (died 1590)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 5 - Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptist (executed) (born 1498)

★ January 21 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (born 1489)

★ March 17 - Rana Sanga, Indian leader (at the Battle of Khanwa

★ May - Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (born 1458)

★ May 6 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (born 1490)

★ June 21 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (born 1469)

★ July 28 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer (born c1460)

★ October 27 - Johann Froben, printer and publisher (born c.1460)

★ November 15- Catherine of York Aunt of Henry VIII (born 1479)

★ November 28 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (born 1477)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (born 1433)

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★ Div Sultan Rumlu, Persian military leader

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★ Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (born c1460)

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★ Jan "Ciężki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (born c1479)

★ ''probable''

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★ Jane Shore, most notorious mistress of King Edward IV of England
: ''See also .''