1525

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s - 1520s - 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1522 1523 1524 - 1525 - 1526 1527 1528

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

[edit] Events of 1525

January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
April 10 - Albert of Prussia committed Prussian Homage.
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.

July 29 - Santa Marta, Colombia, was founded by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas and was the first city to be founded in Colombia.

European brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands including the Inca.
Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya State, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado(in what is now Guatemala).
Bubonic Plague spreads in southern France.
The New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale.
First French ambassador arrives in Istanbul.

January 6 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (died 1602)
January 29 - Lelio Sozzini, Humanist and Reformer (died 1562)
September 11 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1598)
September 25 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
October 1 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (died 1600)
date unknown
- Maharal of Prague, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher (died 1609)
- Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (died 1560)
- Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (died 1586)
probable
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1569)
- Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (died 1603)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (died 1594)
- Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor (died 1579)

See also Category: 1525 births.

January 24 - Franciabigio, Florentine painter (born 1482)
February 24
- Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (born c1488)
- Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer (born 1470)
- Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)
February 28 - Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (executed) (born c1502)
May 5 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
May 27 - Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (born 1489)
July 22 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (born c1456)
November 17 - Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)
December 30 - Jakob Fugger, German banker (born 1459)
date unknown
- Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
probable
- Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (born 1473)

See also Category: 1525 deaths.