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Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1524 1525 1526 – 1527 – 1528 1529 1530

1527 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1527 (MDXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1527 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events of 1527

[edit] January–June

• January 5 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.
• March 17 – Battle of Khanwa: This and two other major Moghul victories lead to the domination of northern India.
• May 6 – Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
• May 16 – In Florence, the Piagnon, a group devoted to the memory of Girolamo Savonarola, drive out the Medici for a second time, and Florence re-establishes a republic that lasts until 1530.
• June 17 – The Narváez expedition to conquer Florida set sail from Spain.
• June 17 – The Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.

[edit] July–December

• August 3 – The first known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
• August 20 – Sixty Anabaptists meet at the Martyrs' Synod.
• August 20 – Diet of Odense (Denmark). King Frederick I declares religious tolerance for Lutherans, permits marriage of priests, forbids seeking papal pallium (approval) for royal appointments of Church officials.^[1][2].

[edit] Undated

• The Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands is completed; the first Guatemala City (Ciudad Vieja) is founded.
• Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo invades Yucatán.
• Battle of Tokay: Ferdinand, future Holy Roman Emperor, defeats John Zápolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Turks for help.

• Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of Somalia defeats the Ethiopian army with his new firearms.
• Members of the University of Wittenberg flee to Jena in fear of the bubonic plague.
• Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK is founded by Bishop John Vesey.
• The Ming Dynasty government of China greatly reduces the quotas for taking grain, severely diminishing the state's capacity to relieve famines through a previously successful granary system.
• The High Renaissance ends.

[edit] Births

1527 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1527 MDXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2280
Armenian calendar	976 ԹՎ ՋՀԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-317 – -316
Bengali calendar	934
Berber calendar	2477
Buddhist calendar	2071
Burmese calendar	889
Byzantine calendar	7035 – 7036
Chinese calendar	丙戌年十一月廿九日 (4163/4223-11-29) — to — 丁亥年十二月初九日 (4164/4224-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1243 – 1244
Ethiopian calendar	1519 – 1520
Hebrew calendar	5287 – 5288
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1582 – 1583
- Shaka Samvat	1449 – 1450
- Kali Yuga	4628 – 4629
Holocene calendar	11527
Iranian calendar	905 – 906
Islamic calendar	933 – 934
Japanese calendar	Daiei 7 (大永7年)
Korean calendar	3860
Thai solar calendar	2070
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• February 17 – Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
• March 21 – Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (d. 1558)
• April 14 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
• July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1608)
• July 31 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
• October 21 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian artist (d. 1593)
  • Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (d. 1591)
  • Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (d. 1581)
  • 1527, Sir George Monoux College was Founded]])
  • Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (d. 1575)
• probable
  • John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1554)
  • Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator (d. 1590)

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 – Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptist (executed) (b. 1498)
• January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (b. 1489)
• March 17 – Rana Sanga, Indian leader (at the Battle of Khanwa)
• May – Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1458)
• May 6 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (b.1490)
• June 21 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (b. 1469)
• July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer (b. c. 1460)
• October 27 – Johann Froben, printer and publisher (b. c. 1460)
• November 15- Catherine of York Aunt of Henry VIII (b. 1479)
• November 28 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (b. 1433)
  • Div Sultan Rumlu, Persian military leader
  • Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (b. c. 1450)

• • Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. c. 1460)
  • Jan "Ciężki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1479)
• probable
  • Jane Shore, most notorious mistress of King Edward IV of England

[edit] References

1. ^ Steffensen, Kenneth (2007), Scandinavia After the Fall of the Kalmar Union: a Study of Scandinavian Relations, 1523-1536. Unpubl. M.A. Thesis, Brigham Young Univ.
2. ^ Fisher, George P (1873), The Reformation. Scribner