1525 To 15291525feb 20 - Swiss and German mercenaries desert Francois I's army.
feb 24 - Battle at Pavia Emperor Charles V's troops beat French king.
feb 24 - Francois I caught taken/8700 killed.
mar 20 - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants.
may 10 - Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague.
jun 09 - Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch.
jun 13 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, a former nun.
jul 11 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague. u.15250907
jul 19 - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau.
sep 01 - Martin Luther defended himself against Henry VIII's attacks in 'Assertio septem sacramentorum'.
sep 07 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague.
sep 15 - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake.
oct 29 - Martin Luther held his first mass entirely in German at Wittenberg.
dec 00 - Japan O?chi forces expand further into Aki.
dec 30 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66.
1526x - Japan Shimazu Katsuhisa is succeded by Takahisa.
x - Japan Shimazu Sanehisa marches against Shimazu Katsuhisa and drives him out of Satsuma.
x - Japan The H?j? and Satomi come to blows over Kamakura, ushering in almost sixty years of hostility between those two clans.
x - Japan Go-Nara becomes emperor.
jan 14 - Charles V and Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid.
jan 14 - Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy & Flanders.
feb 08 - Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die.
feb 27 - Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha league of Protestant princes.
mar 10 - Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal.
mar 17 - French king Francois I freed from Spain.
mar 26 - King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France.
apr 21 - Battle at PanipatMogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi.
apr 27 - Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi.
may 02 - German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League.
may 22 - Pope Clement VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac.
aug 29 - Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20.
nov 09 - Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg.
dec 17 - Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia.
dec 17 - Pope Clement VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition.
1527x - Japan The O?chi and Amako clash in Bingo province.
x - Henry VIII of England alleges his marraige to Catharine of Aragon is invalid because she is his brother's widow and appeals to Rome.
feb 24 - Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia.
mar 16 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen.
mar 23 - The First Diet of Nuernberg began. The Diet was called by Charles V to deal with, among other issues, the mounting religious crisis.
apr 30 - England and France sign treaty of Westminster.
may 06 - Charles V's army, including German, French and Spanish troops, sacked Rome. Although the soldiers, after their victory, drunkenly declared they would make Luther the new pope, Charles permitted Pope Clement VII to retain his secular powers.
may 16 - Florence becomes a republic.
may 30 - University of Marburg (Germany) founded.
jun 07 - Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies.
jun 21 - Nicolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57.
jun 24 - Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking Roman Catholic possessions.
jul 13 - John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician, is born.
jul 31 - Maximilian II, German King/Emperor r.1564-
aug 16 - Leonhard Kaiser, a Bavarian vicar who supported Luther but recanted his support after being arrested, was burned at the stake as a heretic.
aug 20 - The Diet of Odensee sanctioned Lutheranism in Denmark.
nov 03 - Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary.
nov 20 - Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic.
dec 06 - Pope Clement VII fleas to Orvieto.
1528x - Japan First year of Ky?roku
x - Japan O?chi Yoshioki dies and is succeded by Yoshitaka.
x - AMERICAS An Audiencia (royal court) was established to consolidate its new empire and slowly curbed Cortes's personal power.
jan 22 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V.
feb 01 - Patrick Hamilton, an early leader of the Reformation in Scotland, was burned at the stake as a heretic.
feb 12 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power.
feb 29 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake.
mar 05 - Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague.
mar 22 - Martin Luther publishes Instruction for the Visitors.
mar 28 - Martin Luther publishes Confession of the Lord's Supper.
may 18 - Martin Luther begins the first of three sermon series on the Catechism. These sermons were the basis for the Large and Small Catechisms Luther would write the following year.
jun 30 - Burgundy army occupies Utrecht.
jul 30 - Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48.
sep 14 - Martin Luther began the second of three sermon series on the Catechism.These sermons were the basis for the Large and Small Catechisms Luther would write the following year.
sep 28 - Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane, about 380 die.
nov 00 - Cabeza de Vaca shipwrecked on what is believed today to be Galveston Island. After trading in the region for some six years, he later explored the Texas interior on his way to Mexico.
nov 11 - Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68.
nov 30 - Martin Luther began the third of three sermon series on the Catechism. These sermons were the basis for the Large and Small Catechisms Luther would write the following year.
nov 30 - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded.
1529x - Pope Clement VII won't grant a divorce for Henry VIII of England. The king makes his great breach with Rome and sets himself up as head of the Church in England.
apr 17 - Louis de Berquin, Martin Luther's French translator and a leader of the Huguenots, is burned at the stake as a heretic.
apr 19 - 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism.
apr 20 - At the Second Diet of Speyer, the term "Protestant" was first applied to participants of the Reformation. The term was taken from the Protestatio, a statement by the Reformers challenging the emipire's stance on religion.
apr 22 - Treaty of SaragosaSpain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere.
apr 23 - Martin Luther publishes Large Catechism.
may 06 - Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals.
may 16 - Martin Luther publishes Small Catechism.
may 27 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake.
jun 21 - Battle at Landriano Leyva beats France.
jun 29 - Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V signed the Peace of Barcelona. Clement made strategic concessions to help Charles in his war with France as long as Charles promised to oppose Martin Luther and his followers.
jul 25 - Martin Luther began preparing the Schwabach Articles. The Articles were the official confession of Electoral Saxony.
jul 26 - Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru.
sep 14 - Martin Luther completed the Schwabach Articles. The Articles were the official confession of Electoral Saxony.
sep 22 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor.
sep 28 - In Cologne, France, Adolf Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden were burned at the stake as heretics.
oct 01 - At the Marburg Colloquy, Lutherans and Sacramentarians met to settle their dispute over the doctrine of Holy Communion. The main disagreement being the question of whether Christ's body and blood are corporally present in the bread and wine.
oct 01 - -oct 03 1529 Meeting between Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli.
oct 03 - Martin Luther wrote the Articles of Marburg. The articles outlined the points of agreement between the Lutherans and the Sacramentarians.
oct 16 - The Schwabach Articles were presented to Emperor Charles V. The Articles were the official confession of Electoral Saxony.
oct 26 - Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor.
nov 03 - London 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament.
nov 04 - English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested.
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