Year 1525 (MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1525

January - June

• January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
• 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, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.
• March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) - Giovanni da Verrazzano lands near Cape Fear.
• March 20, in the german town Memmingen was the Twelve Article, the first human rights in Europe written.
• April 10 - Albert of Prussia commits Prussian Homage.
• May 15 - Peasants' War - Battle of Frankenhausen: The rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire are defeated by the Lords, ending the 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.

July - December

• July 29 - Santa Marta, the first city in Colombia, is founded by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas.

William Tyndale.

Undated

• 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).
• The Bubonic Plague spreads in southern France.
• The New Testament is translated into English by William Tyndale.
• The first French ambassador arrives in Istanbul.
• The Chinese Ministry of War under the Ming Dynasty orders ships having more than one mast sailing along the southeast coast to be seized, investigated, and destroyed; this in an effort to curb piracy and limit private commercial trade abroad.
• Over 75,000 peasants are killed in Germany.
• The last Aztec Emperor, Cuautemoc, is killed by Hernán Cortéz.
• Francis I of France and Suleiman I strike an alliance against Austria.

Births

• January 6 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
• January 29 - Lelio Sozzini, Humanist and Reformer (d. 1562)
• September 11 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1598)
• September 25 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
• October 1 - Tadeá? Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
• date unknown
  • Maharal of Prague, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher (d. 1609)
  • Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (d. 1560)
  • Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (d. 1586)
• probable
  • Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (d. 1569)
  • Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (d. 1603)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
  • Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor (d. 1579)

See also Category: 1525 births.

Deaths

• January 24 - Franciabigio, Florentine painter (b. 1482)
• February 24
  • Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (b. c. 1488)
  • Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer (b. 1470)
  • Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (in battle)
• February 28 - Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (executed) (b. c. 1502)
• May 5 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
• May 27 - Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (b. 1489)
• July 22 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. c. 1456)
• November 17 - Leonor of Viseu, queen of Joăo II of Portugal (b. 1458)
• December 30 - Jakob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
• probable
  • Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (b. 1473)
• Huayna Capac

See also Category: 1525 deaths.

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