1526

Year 1526 (MDXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529

1526 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1526 MDXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2279
Armenian calendar	975 ԹՎ ՋՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6276
Balinese saka calendar	1447–1448
Bengali calendar	933
Berber calendar	2476
English Regnal year	17 Hen. 8 – 18 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2070
Burmese calendar	888
Byzantine calendar	7034–7035
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4223 or 4016     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4224 or 4017
Coptic calendar	1242–1243
Discordian calendar	2692
Ethiopian calendar	1518–1519
Hebrew calendar	5286–5287
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1582–1583
- Shaka Samvat	1447–1448
- Kali Yuga	4626–4627
Holocene calendar	11526
Igbo calendar	526–527
Iranian calendar	904–905
Islamic calendar	932–933
Japanese calendar	Daiei 6 (大永６年)
Javanese calendar	1444–1445
Julian calendar	1526 MDXXVI
Korean calendar	3859
Minguo calendar	386 before ROC 民前386年
Nanakshahi calendar	58
Thai solar calendar	2068–2069
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1652 or 1271 or 499     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1653 or 1272 or 500

August 29: Battle of Mohács

Events

January–June

• 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]
• April 21 – Battle of Panipat: Babur becomes Mughal emperor, invades northern India and captures Delhi, creating the Mughal Empire, which lasts until 1857.^[3][4]
• May 22 – Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including Pope Clement VII, Milan, Venice, and Florence.^[5]
• May 23 – A transit of Venus occurs,^[6][7] the last before optical filters allow astronomers to observe them.
• June 9 – Emperor Go-Nara ascends to the throne of Japan.

July–December

• July – The Spanish ship Santiago, from García Jofre de Loaísa's expedition, reaches the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the first to navigate from Europe to the west coast of North America.^[8]
• July 24 – Milan is captured by the Spanish.^[9]
• August 15 – The first official translation is made of the New Testament into Swedish; the entire Bible is completed in 1541.^[10]
• August 21 – Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar becomes the first European to sight the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean.^[11]
• August 29 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who is killed in the retreat by drowning.^[12] Suleiman takes Buda, while Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and John Zápolya, Prince of Transylvania, dispute the succession.^[13] 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.^[14]

Date unknown

• Spring – The first complete printed translation of the New Testament of the Bible into the English language by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, printing having been completed in Worms by Peter Schöffer the younger (with other copies being printed in Amsterdam). In October, Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, attempts to collect all the copies in his diocese and burn them.
• Gunsmith Bartolomeo Beretta (in Italian) establishes the Beretta Gun Company, which will still be in business in the 21st century, making it one of the world's oldest firearm corporations.^[15][16]
• Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro and his brothers first reach Inca territory in South America.

Births

 

Carolus Clusius

 

Catherine Jagiellon

• January 1 – Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin America, patron saint of Colombia (d. 1581)^[17]
• January 20 – Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1572)^[18]
• January 25 – Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586)^[19]
• 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)^[20]
• February 23 – Gonçalo da Silveira, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1561)^[21]
• March 4 – Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (d. 1596)^[22]
• March 11 – Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer (d. 1598)^[23]
• April 5 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (d. 1566)
• April 8 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg, Countess of Henneberg (d. 1566)
• April 12 – Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)^[24]
• April 29 – Beate Clausdatter Bille, Danish noblewoman (d. 1593)^[25]
• 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)^[26]
• July 10 – Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (d. 1595)^[27]
• July 31 – Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)^[28]
• August 18 – Claude, Duke of Aumale (d. 1573)
• August 22 – Adolph of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau (d. 1559)^[29][30]
• September 23 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland (d. 1563)^[31]
• September 26 – Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1569)^[32]
• October 1 – Dorothy Stafford, English noble (d. 1604)^[33]
• October 30 – Hubert Goltzius, Dutch Renaissance painter-engraver (d. 1583)^[34]
• November 1 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (d. 1583)^[35]
• November 12 – Andreas Gaill, German jurist and statesman (d. 1587)^[36]
• December 12 – Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (d. 1588)^[37]
• December 26 – Rose Lok, English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period (d. 1613)^[38]
• December 28 – Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German princess (d. 1589)^[39]
• date unknown
  • Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Dutch war heroine (d. 1588)^[40]
  • Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese daimyō in the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods (d. 1603)
  • Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
• probable
  • Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Ottoman Muslim scientist (d. 1585)^[41]

Deaths

 

Isabella of Austria

 

Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia

• January 16 – Catherine of the Palatinate, Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (b. 1499)^[42]
• January 19 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)^[43]
• February 23 – Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies (b. c. 1479)^[44]
• March 24 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (b. 1458)^[45]
• March 30 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)^[46]
• April 21 – Ibrahim Lodi, last Sultan of Delhi (in battle)^[47]
• April 25 – Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (b. 1460)^[48]
• May 19 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
• June 4 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish duke (b. 1467)^[49]
• July 14 – John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English noble (b. 1499)^[50]
• July 30 – García Jofre de Loaísa, Spanish explorer (b. 1490)^[51]
• August 4 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)^[52]
• August 29 – King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (in battle) (b. 1506)^[12]
• September 5 – Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer
• October 18 – Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (b. 1480)^[53]
• November 5 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (b. 1465)^[54]
• November 30 – Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Italian condottiero (b. 1498)
• December 12 – Le Chieu Tong, Emperor of Đại Việt, was killed by Mạc Đăng Dung (b. 1506)
• date unknown
  • Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, sultan of Adal (assassinated)
  • Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, founder of the Spanish colony of Nicaragua (b. c. 1475)^[55]
  • Binnya Ran II, Burmese king of Hanthawaddy (b. 1469)^[56]
  • Conrad Grebel, co-founder of the Anabaptist movement (b. 1498)^[57]

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