1525

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1525 by topic
Arts and science
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Science
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1525 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1525
MDXXV
Ab urbe condita2278
Armenian calendar974
ԹՎ ՋՀԴ
Assyrian calendar6275
Balinese saka calendar1446–1447
Bengali calendar932
Berber calendar2475
English Regnal year16 Hen. 8 – 17 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2069
Burmese calendar887
Byzantine calendar7033–7034
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4221 or 4161
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4222 or 4162
Coptic calendar1241–1242
Discordian calendar2691
Ethiopian calendar1517–1518
Hebrew calendar5285–5286
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1581–1582
 - Shaka Samvat1446–1447
 - Kali Yuga4625–4626
Holocene calendar11525
Igbo calendar525–526
Iranian calendar903–904
Islamic calendar931–932
Japanese calendarDaiei 5
(大永５年)
Javanese calendar1443–1444
Julian calendar1525
MDXXV
Korean calendar3858
Minguo calendar387 before ROC
民前387年
Nanakshahi calendar57
Thai solar calendar2067–2068
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
1651 or 1270 or 498
    — to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
1652 or 1271 or 499
Battle of Pavia

Events

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: German and 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. While Francis is imprisoned in Lombardy and then transferred to Madrid, the first attempts to form a Franco-Ottoman alliance with Suleiman the Magnificent against the Habsburg Empire are made.[1]
  • February 28 – The last Aztec Emperor, Cuauhtémoc, is killed by Hernán Cortés.
  • March 20 – In the German town of Memmingen, the pamphlet The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed is published, the first human rights related document written in Europe.
  • April 4 – German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire: Battle of Leipheim – Peasants retreat.
  • April 10 – Albert, Duke of Prussia commits Prussian Homage.
  • May 14–15 – German Peasants' War: Battle of Frankenhausen – Insurgent peasants led by radical pastor Thomas Müntzer are defeated.
  • June 13 – Martin Luther marries ex-nun Katharina von Bora.[2] The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder is one of the witnesses.
  • June 16 – Henry VIII of England appoints his six-year old illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
  • June 23–24 – German Peasants' War: Battle of Pfeddersheim – Peasants are defeated in the last significant action of the war, in which over 75,000 peasants have been killed.

July–December

Date unknown
  • Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomans Maya State, falls to the Spanish conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado (in modern-day Guatemala) after a three-month siege.
  • European-brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands, including the Inca.
  • The Bubonic plague spreads in southern France.
  • Printing of the first edition of William Tyndale's New Testament Bible translation into English in Cologne is interrupted by anti-Lutheran forces (finished copies reach England in 1526).
  • Printing of Huldrych Zwingli's New Testament 'Zürich Bible' translation into German by Christoph Froschauer begins.
  • The Navarre witch trials (1525-26) begin.
  • 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.
  • Kasur established as a city by the Kheshgi tribe of Pashtuns from Kabul who migrate to the region in 1525 from Afghanistan.
  • The Age of Samael ends, and the Age of Gabriel begins, according to Johannes Trithemius.

Births
Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Deaths
Franciabigio
Jakob Fugger
  • January 24 – Franciabigio, Florentine painter (b. 1482)
  • February 24 (in action at the Battle of Pavia)
    • 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 (b. 1480)
    • Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (b. 1460)[5]
    • Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (b. 1477)
    • René de Brosse, French noble
  • February 28 – Cuauhtémoc, last Tlatoani of the Aztec Empire (b. c. 1495)[6]
  • April 3 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Italian Renaissance man of letters (b. 1475)
  • May 5 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)[7]
  • May 12 – Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburgian royal (b. 1485)
  • May 18 – Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher (b. 1462)
  • May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German pastor and rebel leader (b. 1489) (executed)
  • July 5 – Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia, German noble (b. 1493)
  • July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. c. 1456)
  • August 4 – Andrea della Robbia, Italian artist (b. 1435)
  • October 24 – Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, Knight of Henry VIII of England (b. 1467)
  • November 17 – Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (b. 1458)
  • December 30 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
  • date unknown
    • Nicholas Storch, German weaver and reformer
  • probable
    • Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (b. 1473)
    • Anna Bielke, Swedish noble and commander (b. 1490)

References
  1. Jean Giono (1965). The Battle of Pavia, 24th February, 1525. P. Owen. p. 134.
  2. Christopher Ocker (August 30, 2018). Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West. Cambridge University Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-1-107-19768-8.
  3. Harrisse, Henry (1872). A Description of Works Relating to America. p. 173.
  4. Gertraude Winkelmann-Rhein (1969). The Paintings and Drawings of Jan 'Flower' Bruegel. H. N. Abrams. p. 25.
  5. John Powell; Christina J. Moose; Rowena Wildin (2001). Magill's Guide to Military History: Jap-Pel. Salem Press. p. 873. ISBN 978-0-89356-017-1.
  6. Morris Rosenblum (1969). Heroes of Mexico. Fleet Press Corporation. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8303-0082-2.
  7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature. R. S. Peale & Company. 1890. p. 741.
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