January–March •
January 6 –
Basarab VI is installed as the new
Prince of Wallachia (now in Romania) in the capital at
Târgoviște, days after the assassination of the Voivode
Radu of Afumați by the other
boyars (Wallachian nobles). Basarab's reign lasts only a month and he is removed on February 5. •
January 8 –
Zhang Qijie becomes the most powerful woman in
Ming dynasty China as the primary wife of the
Jiajing Emperor, shortly after the death of the
Empress Xiaojiesu. •
January 20 – In
India, the Mughal Emperor
Babur departs from the capital at
Agra toward
Ghazipur to fight the Rajputs and the rebel Afghans who had captured the city. •
January 28 –
Peter Vannes, the Italian-born envoy for England's King
Henry VIII, arrives in
Rome on a mission to get
Pope Clement VII to give a dispensation for King Henry to divorce one wife and marry another, with both marriages to be declared valid. The mission fails. •
February 2 – The
Örebro Synod provides the theological foundation of the Swedish Reformation, following the economic foundation of it, after the
Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden. •
March 9 – The
Battle of Shimbra Kure is fought in Ethiopia as the
Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, with 12,000 men, including special forces armed with
matchlock firearms, defeats the 200,000 man army of the
Emperor Dawit II. •
March 25 – A
blood libel is carried out against the Jewish community of
Bosen in Hungary (now Pezinok in
Slovakia), on the first day of Passover, after a boy in the town disappears. Three Jews are accused and killed. The boy is later discovered alive, having been kidnapped for the benefit of the scheme.
April–June •
April 8 – The Flensburg Disputation is held, a debate attended by Stadtholder Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein (later King
Christian III of Denmark), between
Lutherans (led by Hermann Fast) and the more radical
Anabaptists (led by
Melchior Hoffman).
Johannes Bugenhagen, a close associate of
Martin Luther, presides. The Disputation marks the rejection of radical ideas by the Danish Reformation. •
April 9 – The
Westrogothian rebellion breaks out in Sweden. •
April 19 –
Diet of Speyer: A group of rulers (
German: Fürst) and independent cities (
German: Reichsstadt) protest the reinstatement of the
Edict of Worms, beginning the
Protestant movement. •
April 22 – The
Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between the
Spanish and
Portuguese empires, stipulating that the dividing line should lie 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the
Moluccas. •
May 10 – The
Ottoman army under
Suleiman I leaves
Constantinople, to invade
Hungary once again. •
May 31–
July – Cardinal
Thomas Wolsey,
Archbishop of York, opens a legatine court at
Blackfriars, London, to rule on the legality of King
Henry VIII of England's marriage to
Catherine of Aragon. The court lasts until
July 16. •
June 21 – •
War of the League of Cognac –
Battle of Landriano:
French forces in northern Italy are decisively defeated by
Spain. • King Henry VIII and Queen consort
Catherine of Aragon appear in person before the Blackfriars court, with Catherine making a pathetic display before the court and her husband, and the king making a speech about his uneasiness about his marriage.
July–September •
July 23 – The Blackfriars court is adjourned after word is received that Pope Clement VII has revoked its charter. •
August 5 –
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and
Francis I of France sign the
Treaty of Cambrai, or ''Ladies' Peace'' in the
War of the League of Cognac: Francis abandons his claims in Italy, but is allowed to retain the
Duchy of Burgundy.
Henry VIII of England accedes on
August 27. •
September 1 –
Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in Argentina, is destroyed by local natives. •
September 8 •
Buda is recaptured by the invading forces of the
Ottoman Empire. • The city of
Maracaibo,
Venezuela is founded by
Ambrosius Ehinger. •
September 27 –
Vienna is besieged by the Ottoman Turks commanded by
Suleiman the Magnificent.
October–December •
October 15 – With the season growing late,
Suleiman abandons the
Siege of Vienna (a turning point in the
Ottoman wars in Europe). •
October 26 –
Cardinal Wolsey falls from power in
England, due to his failure to obtain an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage and to prevent
Habsburg expansion in Europe.
Thomas More succeeds him as
Lord Chancellor. == Births ==