1525

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, Zurich, 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.

Births

• Catherine Howard, later fifth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
• Girolamo Cavazzoni, Italian composer of keyboard music (approximate date)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, the most renowned composer of the late Renaissance (approximate date)
• Baldassare Donato, Italian composer of the Venetian school (approximate date)

Deaths

• Cuauhtmoc, last Aztec Emperor, tortured to death by his Spanish captors
• Inca Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca, died of what was probably smallpox.
• Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne, killed in the Battle of Pavia

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