Year 1525 (MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. [edit] Events of 1525 [edit] 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: 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.
- March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) – Giovanni da Verrazzano lands near Cape Fear.
- March 20, in the German town Memmingen was the Twelve Article, the first human rights in Europe written.
- April 10 – Albert of Prussia commits Prussian Homage.
- May 15 – Peasants' War – Battle of Frankenhausen: The rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire are defeated by the Lords, ending the war.
- June 16 – Henry VIII of England creates his illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
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