1530

November 5: St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal

Template:C16 year in topic Year 1530 (MDXXX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1530th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 530th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 16th century, and the 1st year of the 1530s decade.

Events

January–March

• January 5 – Strasbourg joins the Christliches Burgrecht, the Protestant alliance of Swiss cities.<ref>Template:Citation. Translated from Template:Citation</ref>
• January 20 – Sent on a mission to penetrate the interior of Mexico and to conquer the Kingdom of Michoacán, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés leads a group of soldiers across the Lerma river through Cuitzeo and proceeds northwest.<ref name = "facts">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• January 21 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues letters from his winter residence in Bologna, inviting members of the Imperial Diet to convene at Augsburg on April 8 to discuss various theological questions.<ref name=Reu>Johann Michael Reu, The Augsburg Confession: A Collection of Sources with an Historical Introduction (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1983) p.28</ref>
• February 14 – Tangaxuan II, last cazonci of the Purépecha Empire, is executed by conquistador Nuño de Guzmán, ending the Purépecha Empire's independence from Spain.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 24 – Charles V is crowned emperor in Bologna, by Pope Clement VII.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• March 23 – The Tribute of the Maltese Falcon, an agreement by the Grand Master of the Order of St John of Jerusalem to pay an annual tribute to the Charles V, King of Sicily, in return for an order granting the Knights full rulership of Tripoli and the islands of Malta and Gozo, is reached.<ref name="odonnel">Template:Cite news</ref> The transfer of ownership takes place on October 26, 1550, although Tripoli is conquered by the Ottomans on August 15, 1551.

April–June

• April 8 – At the invitation of the Holy Roman Emperor, the members of the Imperial Diet open their session at Augsburg in Germany to prepare the Augsburg Confession, an official imperial set of rules for Protestantism.<ref name=Reu/>
• May 9 – The Kaqchikel people, a tribe of the Maya people of what is now the Sacatepéquez Department of Guatemala, surrender to the Spanish conquistadors.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• June 25 – The Augsburg Confession is presented to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

July–September

• July 4 – King François of France marries Eleanor of Austria, daughter of King Philip I of Castile and widow of King Manuel I of Portugal.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• July 9 – The Tetrapolitan Confession, a Protestant confession of faith, is submitted jointly to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V on behalf of the southern German cities of Konstanz, Lindau, Memmingen and Strasbourg.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• July 19 – Turkish Ottoman troops attempt to take the Hungarian town of Nagykörű but, according to local legend, the Turkish soldiers are lost in a marsh protecting the city.
• July 25 – The transfer of Tripoli, in North Africa, from Spain to the Knights of Malta, is formally accomplished, four months after an agreement was reached with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain and King of Sicily.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• July 30 – At Neue Augsburg (now Coro in the nation of Venezuela), German explorer Nikolaus Federmann becomes the acting governor of Klein-Venedig ("Little Venice") Germany's short-lived South American colonyas Governor Ambrosius Ehinger takes a leave of absence to recover from malaria.<ref>Template:Cite Appletons'</ref>
• August 3 – Battle of Gavinana: Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Chalon (who is killed in the action). The Piagnon (followers of the memory of Girolamo Savonarola) are overthrown, ending the Siege of Florence, and the Medici are restored, in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de' Medici.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• September 15 – The miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano appears in Soriano Calabro, Calabria.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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October–December

• October 8 – A flood engulfs Rome.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 26 – The Knights of Malta are formed, when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Charles V. They transfer the island capital from Mdina to Birgu.
• November 5 – St. Felix's flood devastates Zeeland: a large part of the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is lost leading to decline of the city of Reimerswaal.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• November 24 – Tabinshwehti succeeds his father Mingyi Nyo as king of the Toungoo dynasty, following the latter's death.
• December 26 – Humayun starts to rule the Mughal Empire after Babur's death.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December – Martim Afonso de Sousa's expedition sets out for Brazil from Portugal.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Date unknown

• The ducal palace of Celle is constructed in Germany.
• Austrian forces capture Esztergom, Hungary, and raid as far as Buda.
• Erasmus publishes On Civility in Children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus), which becomes popular and widely translated.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• First complete edition of the 'Zürich Bible', Huldrych Zwingli's translation into German printed by Christoph Froschauer, is published.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

Sir Thomas Bromley

Ivan the Terrible

• January 5 – Gaspar de Bono, Spanish monk of the Order of the Minims (d. 1571)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 31 – Ōtomo Sōrin, Japanese Christian Daimyō (d. 1587)
• February 17 – Louis III, Count of Löwenstein (d. 1611)
• February 18 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
• February 26 – David Chytraeus, German historian and theologian (d. 1600)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 11 – Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1573)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 5 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (d. 1574)
• May 7 – Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Protestant general (d. 1569)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 17 – François de Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1579)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 20 – Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, German physician (d. 1598)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 3 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1602)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 1 – Daniel, Count of Waldeck (d. 1577)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 11 – Ranuccio Farnese, Italian prelate (d. 1565)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 14 – Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 25 – Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• September 30 – Geronimo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 1 – Walter Aston, English politician (d. 1589)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• October 21 – Jacques Jonghelinck, Flemish sculptor (d. 1606)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 30 – Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• November 1 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• November 6 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (d. 1576)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 1 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (d. 1616)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• December 5 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German musician (d. 1592)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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  • Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (d. 1589)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • Vincenza Armani, Italian actress (d. 1569)
  • Christopher Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1581)
  • Jean Bodin, French jurist (d. 1596)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish bishop, political thinker and philosopher (d. 1607)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (d. 1566)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
  • Kōriki Kiyonaga, Japanese daimyō in the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods (d. 1608)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (d. 1584)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Jean Nicot, French diplomat and scholar (d. 1606)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Mordecai Yoffe, Bohemian author of Levush Malkhut (d. 1612)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Anastasia Romanovna, Russian Tsaritsa (d. 1560)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Thomas Bromley, English lord chancellor (d. 1587)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
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  • Moses Isserles, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1572)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Claude Le Jeune, French composer (d. 1600)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Gráinne O'Malley, Irish ruler (d. 1603)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (d. 1598)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain and rebel (d. 1567)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
  • Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chieftain of Tyrone (d. 1595)
  • Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (d. 1568)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Nicholas Sanders, English Catholic propagandist (d. 1581)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest and chess player (d. 1580)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Pey de Garros, Provençal poet (d. 1585)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Deaths

Thomas Wolsey

Babur Badshah

• February 7 – Enrique de Cardona y Enríquez, Spanish Catholic cardinal and bishop (b. 1485)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 24 – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (b. c. 1490)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 12 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (b. 1462)
• May 3 – Stephen VII Báthory, Hungarian nobleman and military commander<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• June 4 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1493)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 5 – Mercurino di Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (b. 1465)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 6 – Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian nobleman (b. 1512)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• June 28 – Margaret of Münsterberg, Duchess consort and regent of Anhalt (b. 1473)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 2 – Kanō Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate (b. 1434)
• August 3 – killed in Battle of Gavinana:
  • Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain (b. 1489)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Philibert of Chalon, French nobleman (b. 1502)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 6 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 10 – Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (b. 1460)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• August 28 – Gerold Edlibach, Swiss historian (b. 1454)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 29 – Moise of Wallachia<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• September 13 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (b. 1462)
• September 15 – Maria Paleologa, Italian noblewoman (b. 1508)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 10 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English noble (b. 1477)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
• November 24 – Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (b. 1459)
• November 29 – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, British statesman (b. c. 1473)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 1 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 22 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (b. 1470)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 26 – Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire (b. 1483)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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  • Quentin Matsys, Flemish painter (b. 1466)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Estienne de La Roche, French mathematician (b. 1470)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Søren Norby, Danish naval commander<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (b. 1487)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>