January–March •
January 1 – Croatian nobles
elect Austrian monarch
Ferdinand I as
King of Croatia in the Parliament on
Cetin. •
January 5 –
Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss
Anabaptists, is drowned in the
Limmat in
Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. •
February 14 –
Queen consort Mary of Hungary, named as regent for the kingdom upon the August 29 death of her husband
Louis II, asks permission from the Hungarian Diet to step down as the regent for the newly elected Frederick of Habsburg, but is denied. •
March 17 – In India, the
Battle of Khanwa is fought as the Mughal Emperor
Babur defeats
Rajput ruler
Rana Sanga. This and two other major
Moghul victories lead to their domination of northern
India.
Dhaulpur fort is taken by Babur. •
March 25 – The
Confederation of Shan States sacks
Ava, the capital of the
Ava Kingdom.
April–June •
April 30 – The
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. •
May 16 – In
Florence, the Piagnon, a group devoted to the memory of
Girolamo Savonarola, drive out the
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
Protestant Reformation begins in
Sweden. The
Riksdag of the Estates in
Västerås adopts
Lutheranism as the
state religion, in place of
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.
July–September •
July 5 – General
Div Sultan Rumlu, the regent for the 13-year old
Tahmasp I, the
Safavid Shah of Iran, is assassinated and replaced by
Chukha Sultan Tekali. •
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.
October–December •
October 5 –
French and Venetian troops kill thousands of civilians in the Italian city of
Pavia, even after the defenders agree to surrender. •
October 31 – Spanish conquistador
Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón departs from
Zihuatanejo in what is now Mexico on a voyage of exploration of the
Pacific Ocean, along with three ships, Saavedra's flagship
La Florida, and the vessels
Espiritu Santo and
Santiago. •
November 3 –
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is formally crowned as the
King of Hungary at the
Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at
Székesfehérvár. •
November 4 – In India,
Puranmal becomes the new Raja of the
Kingdom of Amber (now in the Indian state of
Rajasthan) after his father, the Raja
Prithviraj Singh I dies of wounds sustained in March in the
Battle of Khanwa. •
November 15 – The lands of the
Bishopric of Utrecht, now in the
Netherlands, are ceded to control of the
Habsburgs in return for assistance in suppressing a rebellion by the citizens of
Utrecht. •
November 22 – Spain's conquest of
Guatemala's highlands is completed as the capital of the colonial government is moved to the new city of
Ciudad Vieja from
Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, near
Iximche. •
November 23 – The
Érdy Codex, the largest collection of
Hungarian legends and
Hungarian language literature, is completed on Saint Clement's Day by an unidentified Carthusian monk at the seminary of
Nagyszombat in Hungary (now
Trnava in
Slovakia. •
December 6 –
Pope Clement VII, held prisoner at the
Castel Sant'Angelo since the sack of Rome in May, is released after seven months of captivity, along with 16 Roman Catholic cardinals. •
December 15 – Two of the three ships of Álvaro de Saavedra are separated from his own vessel,
La Florida, during a storm. The
Espiritu Santo and
Santiago, sailing ahead of
La Florida, are never heard from again.
Date unknown • 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 ==