1526

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August 29: Battle of Mohács

Template:C16 year in topic Year 1526 (MDXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

January 14 – 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) p.94</ref>
February 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, agrees to form a military alliance with France, after King François I sends a proposal by way of his envoy, Jean Frangipani.<ref>Roger B. Merriman, Suleiman the Magnificent, 1520–1566 (Read Books, 2007) p.129 Template:ISBN</ref>
February 9 – In Guatemala, a group of 16 deserters from the Spanish colonial army destroy Iximche, the capital of the indigenous kingdom of the Mayan Kaqchikel people, and burn the palace of the Ahpo Xahil<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 15 – Spanish author Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, commonly called "Oviedo", publishes the chronicle La Natural Hystoria De Las Indias (The Natural History of the Indies) <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 21 – Lopo Vaz de Sampaio becomes the new Governor of Portuguese India following the February 2 death of the 30-year-old Governor Henrique de Meneses from gangrene resulting from a battle injury to his leg.<ref>Mário Domingues, D. João III: o homem e a sua época (Dom João III: The man and his times) (Edição Romano Torres, 1962) p. 76-85</ref>
February 25 – The Battle of Hisar Firoza is fought in what is now the Indian state of Haryana, between the Mughal Empire (whose army is led by Prince Humayun) and the Delhi Sultanate, led by Hamid Khan. Humayun, in his first command, leads the Mughals to victory.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
February 27 – The League of Torgau is formed as an alliance of German princes to oppose the 1521 Edict of Worms.<ref>Torgauer Bündnis (The Torgau League) at historicum.net</ref>
March 7 – In Switzerland, the Canton of Zurich enacts a law directed against the Anabaptist movement, specifically outlawing a second baptism of an adult who was previously baptized as an infant, and makes the crime punishable by drowning. The penalty is enforced for the first time on January 5, 1527, when Felix Manz is executed.<ref>"Anabaptist", in The Mennonite Encyclopedia, ed.by Harold S. Bender, et al., editors (Brethren Publishing House, 1955) Template:ISBN</ref>
March 6 –
- After a defeat in battle of Afghan soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate by the Mughal Empire, the Mughal Emperor Babur and Crown Prince Humayun arrange the execution of 100 captured Afghan prisoners by "blowing from a gun, the process of placing a tying a condemned prisoner to the mouth of a cannon and then firing.<ref>Abdul Sabahuddin and Rajshree Shukla, (2003), The Mughal Strategy of War, p. 122</ref>
- King François I of France is released from captivity in Spain after having signed the Treaty of Madrid.<ref>Template:Cite bookTarver 2016, p. 106</ref>
March 10 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, marries Princess Isabella of Portugal at the Alcázar of Seville palace in Spain.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 17 – King François I crosses from the Bidasoa River from Spain into France, while at the same time, his sons the Dauphin Prince François and Prince Henri, 8 and 5 at the time, cross into Spain to take his place as hostages to guarantee France's compliance with the Madrid Treaty. King François repudiates the treaty and the two boys remain captive for the next three years.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March – The first complete printed translation of the New Testament of the Bible into the English language by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, where printing had been completed in Worms by Peter Schöffer the younger, towards the end of February.<ref>David Daniell, Tyndale's New Testament (Yale University Press, 1995) p.ix</ref>

April–June

April 21 – Battle of Panipat: Babur becomes Mughal emperor, invades northern India and captures Delhi, creating the Mughal Empire, which lasts until 1857.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 22 – Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including Pope Clement VII, Milan, Venice, and Florence.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 23 – A transit of Venus occurs,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the last before optical filters allow astronomers to observe them.
June 9 – Emperor Go-Nara ascends to the throne of Japan.

July–September

July 24 – Milan is captured by the Spanish.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
July 25 – The Spanish ship Santiago, from García Jofre de Loaísa's expedition, reaches the Pacific Coast of Mexico and drops anchor at the Gulf of Tehuantepec,<ref>"La expedición de Jofre de Loaísa", Tras La Ultima Frontera</ref> becoming the first ship to sail from Europe to the west coast of North America.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
August 9 – Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón of Spain founded the failed colony, San Miguel de Gualdape in present-day Winyah Bay, 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 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
August 21 – Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar becomes the first European to sight the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
August 29 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who drowns while retreating with his troops. Two rival groups seek to elect a successor to Louis.<ref name="LOUIS">Template:Cite book</ref> Suleiman takes Buda, while Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and John Zápolya, Prince of Transylvania, dispute the succession.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>Henry Charles Lea, The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion (Lea Brothers & Company, 1901) p. 95</ref>

October–December

October 23 – In October, Cuthbert Tunstall, the Roman Catholic Bishop of London, issues a proclamation directing followers to destroy all copies of Tyndale's New Testament.<ref>David Teems, Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice (Thomas Nelson Publishing, 2012) pp.79-80</ref>
October 24 – The Bohemian Diet elects Archduke Ferdinand of the House of Habsburg as the King of Bohemia.
November 10 – In eastern Hungary, at Székesfehérvár, a group of lesser nobles proclaims John Zápolya as proclaimed as the King of Hungary. The assembly proclaims the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, with a capital at Buda.
December 15 – (12th day of 11th month of Daiei 6) The siege of Kamakura takes place in Japan as the Uesugi clan defeats the Hōjō clan<ref>Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.</ref>
December 17 – At Pozsony in western Hungary (now Bratislava in Slovakia), the Diet elects the Archduke Ferdinand as the King of Hungary.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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Gunsmith Bartolomeo Beretta Template:In lang 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro and his brothers first reach Inca territory in South America.