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Calendar year
August 29 :
Battle of Mohács
Year 1526 (
MDXXVI ) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
January 14 –
Treaty of Madrid : Peace is declared between
Francis I of France and
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor . Francis agrees to cede
Burgundy and abandons all claims to
Flanders ,
Artois ,
Naples , and
Milan .
[1]
January 26 – The deadline for
Spanish Muslims to convert to Christianity or leave is reached in the
Crown of Aragon and the
Principality of Catalonia as decreed by the edict of November 25 by
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor acting in his capacity as King of Spain. The deadline for the
Kingdom of Valencia had passed on December 31, 1525.
[2]
February 6 –
Suleiman the Magnificent , Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire , agrees to form a military alliance with
France , after King
François I sends a proposal by way of his envoy,
Jean Frangipani .
[3]
February 9 – In
Guatemala , a group of 16 deserters from the Spanish colonial army destroy
Iximche , the capital of the indigenous kingdom of the Mayan
Kaqchikel people , and burn the palace of the Ahpo Xahil
[4]
February 15 – Spanish author
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés , commonly called "Oviedo", publishes th chronicle La Natural Hystoria De Las Indias (The Natural History of the Indies)
[5]
February 21 –
Lopo Vaz de Sampaio becomes the new
Governor of
Portuguese India following the February 2 death of the 30-year-old Governor
Henrique de Meneses from gangrene resulting from a battle injury to his leg.
[6]
February 25 – The
Battle of Hisar Firoza is fought in what is now the Indian state of
Haryana , between the
Mughal Empire (whose army is led by Prince
Humayun ) and the
Delhi Sultanate , led by Hamid Khan. Humayun, in his first command, leads the Mughals to victory.
[7]
February 27 – The
League of Torgau is formed as an alliance of German princes to oppose the 1521
Edict of
Worms .
[8]
March 7 – In Switzerland, the
Canton of Zurich enacts a law directed against the
Anabaptist movement, specifically outlawing a second
baptism of an adult who was previously baptized as an infant, and makes the crime punishable by
drowning . The penalty is enforced for the first time on January 5, 1527, when
Felix Manz is executed.
[9]
March 6 –
After a defeat in battle of Afghan soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate by the Mughal Empire, the Mughal Emperor Babur and Crown Prince Humayun arrange the execution of 100 captured Afghan prisoners by "
blowing from a gun , the process of placing a tying a condemned prisoner to the mouth of a cannon and then firing.
[10]
King François I of France is released from captivity in Spain after having signed the Treaty of Madrid.
[11]
March 10 –
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, marries Princess
Isabella of Portugal at the
Alcázar of Seville palace in Spain.
[12]
March 17 – King François I crosses from the
Bidasoa River from Spain into France, while at the same time, his sons
the Dauphin Prince François and
Prince Henri , 8 and 5 at the time, cross into Spain to take his place as hostages to guarantee France's compliance with the Madrid Treaty. King François repudiates the treaty and the two boys remain captive for the next three years.
[13]
March – The first complete printed translation of the
New Testament of the
Bible into the English language by
William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, where printing had been completed in
Worms by
Peter Schöffer the younger , towards the end of February.
[14]
July 24 –
Milan is captured by the
Spanish .
[20]
July 25 – The
Spanish ship Santiago , from
García Jofre de Loaísa 's expedition, reaches the
Pacific Coast of Mexico and drops anchor at the
Gulf of Tehuantepec ,
[21] becoming the first ship to sail from Europe to the west coast of North America.
[22]
August 9 – Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón of Spain founded the failed colony,
San Miguel de Gualdape in present-day
Winyah Bay ,
Georgetown County ,
South Carolina . It was the first European settlement, as well as the first documented occurrence of enslavement of African peoples in what would later become become the continental
United States .
August 15 – The first official translation is made of the
New Testament into
Swedish ; the entire Bible is completed in
1541 .
[23]
August 21 – Spanish explorer
Alonso de Salazar becomes the first European to sight the
Marshall Islands , in the Pacific Ocean.
[24]
August 29 –
Battle of Mohács : The Ottoman army of Sultan
Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King
Louis II , who drowns while retreating with his troops. Two rival groups seek to elect a successor to Louis.
[25] Suleiman takes
Buda , while
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and
John Zápolya ,
Prince of Transylvania , dispute the succession.
[26] As a result of the battle,
Dubrovnik achieves independence, although it acknowledges
Turkish overlordship.
September 19 – Spanish Muslims who had hidden in the
Sierra de Espadán mountain range in Valencia and who are led by Selim Almanzo are overwhelmed by a German contingent of 3,000 soldiers from the Holy Roman Empire. After their defeat, 5,000 adult Muslims (including old men and women) are massacred.
[27]
Carolus Clusius
Catherine Jagiellon
January 1 –
Louis Bertrand , Spanish missionary to Latin America,
patron saint of
Colombia (d.
1581 )
[33]
January 20 –
Rafael Bombelli , Italian mathematician (d.
1572 )
[34]
January 25 –
Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d.
1586 )
[35]
February 1 –
Niiro Tadamoto , Japanese samurai (d.
1611 )
February 2 –
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski , Polish noble (d.
1608 )
February 19 –
Charles de L'Ecluse , Flemish botanist (d.
1609 )
[36]
February 23 –
Gonçalo da Silveira , Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d.
1561 )
[37]
March 4 –
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (d.
1596 )
[38]
March 11 –
Heinrich Rantzau , German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer (d.
1598 )
[39]
April 5 –
Giuseppe Arcimboldo , Italian painter (d.
1593 )
April 8 –
Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg , Countess of Henneberg (d.
1566 )
April 12 –
Muretus , French humanist (d.
1585 )
[40]
April 29 –
Beate Clausdatter Bille , Danish noblewoman (d.
1593 )
[41]
June 9 –
Matsudaira Hirotada , Japanese daimyō (d.
1549 )
June 25 –
Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton , English noble (d.
1565 )
July 9 –
Elizabeth of Austria , Polish noble (d.
1545 )
[42]
July 10 –
Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (d.
1595 )
[43]
July 31 –
Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d.
1586 )
[44]
August 18 –
Claude, Duke of Aumale (d.
1573 )
August 22 –
Adolph of Nassau-Saarbrücken , Count of Nassau (d.
1559 )
[45]
[46]
September 23 –
Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland (d.
1563 )
[47]
September 26 –
Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d.
1569 )
[48]
October 1 –
Dorothy Stafford , English noble (d.
1604 )
[49]
October 30 –
Hubert Goltzius , Dutch Renaissance painter-engraver (d.
1583 )
[50]
November 1 –
Catherine Jagiellon , queen of
John III of Sweden (d.
1583 )
[51]
November 12 –
Andreas Gaill , German jurist and statesman (d.
1587 )
[52]
December 12 –
Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz , Spanish admiral (d.
1588 )
[53]
December 26 –
Rose Lok , English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period (d.
1613 )
[54]
December 28 –
Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach , German princess (d.
1589 )
[55]
date unknown
probable
Isabella of Austria
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
January 16 –
Catherine of the Palatinate , Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (b.
1499 )
[58]
January 19 –
Isabella of Burgundy , queen of
Christian II of Denmark (b.
1501 )
[59]
February 23 –
Diego Colón , Spanish Viceroy of the Indies (b. c.
1479 )
[60]
March 24 –
Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen , German prince (b.
1458 )
[61]
March 30 –
Konrad Mutian , German humanist (b.
1471 )
[62]
April 21 –
Ibrahim Lodi , last Sultan of Delhi (in battle)
[63]
April 25 –
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (b.
1460 )
[64]
May 19 –
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b.
1464 )
June 4 –
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque , Spanish duke (b.
1467 )
[65]
July 14 –
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford , English noble (b.
1499 )
[66]
July 30 –
García Jofre de Loaísa , Spanish explorer (b.
1490 )
[67]
August 4 –
Juan Sebastián Elcano , Spanish explorer (b.
1476 )
[68]
August 29 – King
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (in battle) (b.
1506 )
[25]
September 5 –
Alonso de Salazar , Spanish explorer
October 18 –
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón , Spanish explorer (b.
1480 )
[69]
November 5 –
Scipione del Ferro , Italian mathematician (b.
1465 )
[70]
November 30 –
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere , Italian condottiero (b.
1498 )
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