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 in science

Events

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 Tribut.
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.
March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) - Giovanni da Verrazano 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.

January 6 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (died 1602)
October 1 - Tadeás Hájek, physician to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (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
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (died 1594)
Lelio Sozini, Humanist and Reformer (died 1562)
Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor

February 24 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (born 1488)
February 26 - Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec Emperor (tortured to death)
May 5 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
May 27 - Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (born 1489)
July 22 - Richard Wingfield, courtier and diplomat (born 1469)
December 20 - Jakob Fugger, significant German banker of the Fugger family (born 1459)
Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (born 1473)
Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca (born 1493)
Franciabigio, Florentine painter (born 1482)
Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer
Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)
Nicholas Storch, radical reformation preacher and a weaver by trade
Leonor of Viseu, Princess and later Queen of Portugalaf:1525