Years: 1524 1525 1526 - 1527 - 1528 1529 1530

Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s

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

Events

• January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zurich by the Zurich 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 Gran of Somalia defeats Abyssinians with his new firearms.
• People of the university of Wittenberg flee plague to Jena.

Births

• March 21 - Hermann Finck, German composer, teacher, and music theorist
• May 21 - King Phillip II of Spain
• July 13 - John Dee, mathematician, astronomer and geographer
• July 31 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
•  ? - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, artist
• Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai

Deaths

• June 21 - Niccolo Machiavelli

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