1525

Years: 1522 1523 1524 - 1525 - 1526 1527 1528
Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1525 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art - Music - Science
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Colonial governors - State leaders
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Establishments - Disestablishments
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Works

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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 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 because the hurting of his horse 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.
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.
The New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale.
First French embassador in Istanbul.

January 6 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (died 1602)
September 25 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
October 1 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (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 (died 1598)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (died 1594)
Lelio Sozini, Humanist and Reformer (died 1562)
Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor (died 1579)
Maharal of Prague, important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher (died 1609)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1569)