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Year 1526 (MDXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- Treaty of Madrid: Peace is declared between Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.[1]
- January 26 – The deadline for Spanish Muslims to convert to Christianity or leave is reached in the Crown of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia as decreed by the edict of November 25 by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor acting in his capacity as King of Spain. The deadline for the Kingdom of Valencia had passed on December 31, 1525.[2]
- May 23 – A transit of Venus occurs,[6][7] the last before optical filters allow astronomers to observe them.
- June 9 – Emperor Go-Nara ascends to the throne of Japan.
July–December
- García Jofre de Loaísa's expedition, reaches the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the first to navigate from Europe to the west coast of North America.[8]
- July 24 – Milan is captured by the Spanish.[9]
- Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was the first European settlement, as well as the first documented occurrence of enslavement of African peoples in what would later became become the continental United States.
- August 15 – The first official translation is made of the New Testament into Swedish; the entire Bible is completed in 1541.[10]
- August 21 – Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar becomes the first European to sight the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean.[11]
- August 29 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who is killed in the retreat by drowning.[12] Suleiman takes Buda, while Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and John Zápolya, Prince of Transylvania, dispute the succession.[13] As a result of the battle, Dubrovnik achieves independence, although it acknowledges Turkish overlordship.
- September 19 – Spanish Muslims who had hidden in the Sierra de Espadán mountain range in Valencia and who are led by Selim Almanzo are overwhelmed by a German contingent of 3,000 soldiers from the Holy Roman Empire. After their defeat, 5,000 adult Muslims (including old men and women) are massacred.[14]
Date unknown
- Spring – The first complete printed translation of the Peter Schöffer the younger (with other copies being printed in Amsterdam). In October, Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, attempts to collect all the copies in his diocese and burn them.
- Gunsmith Bartolomeo Beretta (in Italian) establishes the Beretta Gun Company, which will still be in business in the 21st century, making it one of the world's oldest firearm corporations.[15][16]
- Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro and his brothers first reach Inca territory in South America.
Births
- January 1 – Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin America, patron saint of Colombia (d. 1581)[17]
- January 20 – Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d. 1572)[18]
- January 25 – Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1586)[19]
- February 1 – Niiro Tadamoto, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
- February 2 – Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Polish noble (d. 1608)
- February 23 – Gonçalo da Silveira, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1561)[21]
- March 4 – Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (d. 1596)[22]
- March 11 – Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer (d. 1598)[23]
- April 5 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (d. 1593)
- April 8 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg, Countess of Henneberg (d. 1566)
- April 12 – Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)[24]
- April 29 – Beate Clausdatter Bille, Danish noblewoman (d. 1593)[25]
- June 9 – Matsudaira Hirotada, Japanese daimyō (d. 1549)
- Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton, English noble (d. 1565)
- July 9 – Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (d. 1545)[26]
- July 31 – Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)[28]
- August 18 – Claude, Duke of Aumale (d. 1573)
- September 23 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland (d. 1563)[31]
- September 26 – Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1569)[32]
- October 1 – Dorothy Stafford, English noble (d. 1604)[33]
- October 30 – Hubert Goltzius, Dutch Renaissance painter-engraver (d. 1583)[34]
- November 1 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (d. 1583)[35]
- November 12 – Andreas Gaill, German jurist and statesman (d. 1587)[36]
- December 26 – Rose Lok, English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period (d. 1613)[38]
- December 28 – Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German princess (d. 1589)[39]
- date unknown
- Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Dutch war heroine (d. 1588)[40]
- Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese daimyō in the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods (d. 1603)
- Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- probable
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Ottoman Muslim scientist (d. 1585)[41]
Deaths
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Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
- January 16 – Catherine of the Palatinate, Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (b. 1499)[42]
- March 24 – Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (b. 1458)[45]
- March 30 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)[46]
- Ibrahim Lodi, last Sultan of Delhi (in battle)[47]
- April 25 – Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (b. 1460)[48]
- May 19 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
- June 4 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish duke (b. 1467)[49]
- July 14 – John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English noble (b. 1499)[50]
- August 4 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)[52]
- September 5 – Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer
- October 18 – Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (b. 1480)[53]
- November 5 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (b. 1465)[54]
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Italian condottiero (b. 1498)
- Le Chieu Tong, Emperor of Đại Việt, was killed by Mạc Đăng Dung (b. 1506)
Date unknown
- Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, sultan of Adal (assassinated)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, founder of the Spanish colony of Nicaragua (b. c. 1475)[55]
- Ingerd Erlendsdotter, noblewoman and landowner
- Binnya Ran II, Burmese king of Hanthawaddy (b. 1469)[56]
- Conrad Grebel, co-founder of the Anabaptist movement (b. 1498)[57]
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