1527

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

Events

January–June

• King of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin
  .
• Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat in Zürich
  by the Zürich Reformed state church.
• Dhaulpur fort is taken by Babur.^[1]
• March – The Confederation of Shan States sack Ava, the capital of the Ava Kingdom.
• Treaty of Westminster (1527)
  , an alliance during the War of the League of Cognac, is signed.
• May 6 – Sack of Rome: Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome, forcing the Medici Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, marking the end of the High Renaissance. The Pope grows a beard in mourning.
• Medici for a second time, re-establishing the Republic of Florence until 1530
  .
• June 17
  • The Narváez expedition to conquer Florida sets sail from Spain.
  • The
    Roman Catholicism. This results in the confiscation of church property and dissolution of Catholic convents in accordance with the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden
    .
• June 22 – Jakarta, modern-day capital of Indonesia, is founded as Jayakarta.^[2]

July–December

• August 3 – The first known letter is sent from North America by John Rut, while at St. John's, Newfoundland, during his voyage to the New World.
• August 20
  • Sixty Anabaptists meet at the Martyrs' Synod in Augsburg.
  • Diet of
    Lutherans, permits marriage of priests and forbids seeking papal pallium (approval) for royal appointments of Church officials.^[3][4]
• September 27 – Battle of Tarcal: Ferdinand, future Holy Roman Emperor, defeats John Zápolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Ottomans for help.

Date unknown

• The Spanish conquest of Guatemala's highlands is completed; the first city in Guatemala, Ciudad Vieja, is founded.
• The second of the Dalecarlian rebellions breaks out in Sweden.
• Members of the
  University of Wittenberg flee to Jena in fear of the bubonic plague
  .
• In England, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School (at Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands) is founded by Bishop John Vesey; and Sir George Monoux College is founded as a grammar school at Walthamstow by Sir George Monoux, draper and Lord Mayor of London.
• 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.

Births

• March 4 – Ludwig Lavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (d. 1586)
• March 5 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
• March 10 – Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio, Italian nobleman (d. 1587)
• March 21 – Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (d. 1558)
• March 28 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (d. 1579)
• March 31 – Edward Fitton, the elder, Irish politician (d. 1579)
• April 14 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
• c. May 1 – Johannes Stadius, German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (d. 1579)
• May 21 – Philip II, King of Spain (d. 1598)^[5]
• May 31 – Agnes of Hesse, German noble, by marriage, Princess of Saxony (d. 1555)
• June 11 – Anna Sophia of Prussia, Duchess of Prussia and Duchess of Mecklenburg (d. 1591)
• June 24 – Jean Vendeville, French law professor, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1592)
• July 8 – Saitō Yoshitatsu, Japanese daimyō (d. 1561)
• John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1608)^[6]
• July 31 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
• August 10 – Barbara of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brieg, German princess (d. 1595)
• September 29 – John Lesley, Scottish bishop (d. 1596)
• October 2 – William Drury, English politician (d. 1579)
• October 15 – Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal (d. 1545)
• Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1578
  )
• November 1
  • Pedro de Ribadeneira, Spanish hagiologist (d. 1611)
  • William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, English noble and politician (d. 1597)
• November 3 – Tilemann Heshusius, Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (d. 1588)
• Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter (d. 1585
  )
• December 6 – Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe (d. 1563)
• December 23 – Hugues Doneau, French lawyer (d. 1591)
• date unknown
  • Luis de León, Spanish lyric poet and mystic (d. 1591)
  • 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)

Deaths

• January 5 – Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptists (executed) (b. 1498)
• January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conqueror (b. 1489)
• March 14 – Shwenankyawshin, Burmese king of Ava (b. 1476)
• March 17 – Rana Sanga, Indian ruler (b. 1484)
• April 19
  • Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1453
    )
  • Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1477)
• April/May – Sir Thomas Docwra, English 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)^[7]
• June 28 – Bernardo de' Rossi, Italian bishop (b. 1468)
• July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conqueror and explorer (b. c. 1460)
• July 31 – Anna Swenonis, Swedish manuscript illuminator
• Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave of Bayreuth (b. 1481
  )
• October 27 – Johann Froben, Swiss printer and publisher (b. c. 1460)
• November 15 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)^[8]
• November 8 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (b. 1433)
  • Luisa de Medrano, Spanish scholar (b. 1484)
  • Div Sultan Rumlu, Persian military leader
  • Petrus Thaborita, Frisian historian and monk (b. c. 1450)
  • Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. c. 1460)
  • Jan "Ciężki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1479)
  • Huayna Capac, Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire (b. 1493)
  • Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligrapher and type designer (b. 1475)
• probable – Jane Shore, mistress of King Edward IV of England

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