1525

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

Events

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.
February 10 - Albert of Prussia committed Prussian Tribut.
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.
March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear
May 15 - Battle of Frankenhausen - Defeat of the rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire by the Lords. End of the Peasants' War.
June 16 - Henry VIII of England creates his illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
June 27 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.
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 in Southern France.

Catherine Howard, later fifth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
Girolamo Cavazzoni , Italian composer of keyboard music (approximate date)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, the most renowned composer of the late Renaissance (approximate date)
Baldassare Donato, Italian composer of the Venetian school (approximate date)

Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec Emperor, tortured to death by his Spanish captors
Inca Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca, died of what was probably smallpox.
Richard de la Pole , last Yorkist claimant to the English throne, killed in the Battle of Pavia