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:
Decades:
Years:
1526 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1526
MDXXVI
Ab urbe condita2279
Armenian calendar975
ԹՎ ՋՀԵ
Assyrian calendar6276
Balinese saka calendar1447–1448
Bengali calendar933
Berber calendar2476
English Regnal year17 Hen. 8  18 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2070
Burmese calendar888
Byzantine calendar7034–7035
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4222 or 4162
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4223 or 4163
Coptic calendar1242–1243
Discordian calendar2692
Ethiopian calendar1518–1519
Hebrew calendar5286–5287
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1582–1583
 - Shaka Samvat1447–1448
 - Kali Yuga4626–4627
Holocene calendar11526
Igbo calendar526–527
Iranian calendar904–905
Islamic calendar932–933
Japanese calendarDaiei 6
(大永6年)
Javanese calendar1444–1445
Julian calendar1526
MDXXVI
Korean calendar3859
Minguo calendar386 before ROC
民前386年
Nanakshahi calendar58
Thai solar calendar2068–2069
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

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

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.
  • The first official translation is made of the New Testament into Swedish; the entire Bible is completed in 1541.
  • 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 corporations.
  • 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)
  • January 20 Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1572)
  • January 25 Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586)
  • 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)
  • February 23 Gonçalo da Silveira, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1561)
  • March 4 Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (d. 1596)
  • March 11 Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer (d. 1598)
  • 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)
  • April 30 Beate Clausdatter Bille, Danish noblewoman (d. 1593)
  • 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)
  • July 10 Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (d. 1595)
  • July 31 Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)
  • August 18 Claude, Duke of Aumale, third son of Claude (d. 1573)
  • August 22 Adolph of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Count of Nassau (d. 1559)
  • September 23 Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland (d. 1563)
  • September 26 Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1569)
  • October 1 Dorothy Stafford, English noble (d. 1604)
  • October 30 Hubert Goltzius, Dutch Renaissance painter-engraver (d. 1583)
  • November 1 Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (d. 1583)
  • November 12 Andreas Gaill, German jurist and statesman (d. 1587)
  • December 12 Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (d. 1588)
  • December 26 Rose Lok, English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period (d. 1613)
  • December 28 Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German princess (d. 1589)
  • date unknown
    • Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Dutch war heroine (d. 1588)
    • 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)
    • Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (d. 1563)

Deaths

Isabella of Austria
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
  • January 16 Catherine of the Palatinate, Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (b. 1499)
  • January 19 Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
  • February 23 Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies (b. c. 1479)
  • March 15 Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (b. 1460)
  • March 24 Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (b. 1458)
  • March 30 Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
  • April 21 Ibrahim Lodi, last Sultan of Delhi (in battle)
  • May 19 Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
  • June 4 Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish duke (b. 1467)
  • July 14 John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English noble (b. 1499)
  • July 20 García Jofre de Loaísa, Spanish explorer (b. 1490)
  • August 4 Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
  • August 29 King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (in battle) (b. 1506)
  • September 5 Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer
  • October 18 Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (b. 1480)
  • November 5 Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (b. 1465)
  • 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)
    • Thado Minsaw of Prome, Burmese king of Prome
    • Binnya Ran II, Burmese king of Hanthawaddy (b. 1469)
    • Conrad Grebel, co-founder of the Anabaptist movement (b. 1498)

References

  1. R. J. Knecht (April 26, 1984). Francis I. Cambridge University Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-521-27887-4.
  2. Sharp, Andrew (1960). Early Spanish Discoveries in the Pacific. pp. 11–13.
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