1527 Explained

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

Events of 1527

January 1 - Parliament on Cetin: Ferdinand of Austria is elected King of Croatia.
January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.
March 17 - Battle of Khanwa: This and two other major Moghul victories lead to the domination of northern India.
May 6 - Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
May 16 - In Florence, the Piagnon, a group devoted to the memory of Girolamo Savonarola, drive out the Medici for a second time, and Florence re-establishes a republic that lasts until 1530.
June 17 - The Narváez expedition to conquer Florida set sail from Spain.
June 17 - The Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.

August 3 - The first known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
August 20 - Sixty Anabaptists meet at the Martyrs' Synod.

The Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands is completed; the first Guatemala City (Ciudad Vieja) is founded.
Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo invades Yucatán.
Battle of Tokay: Ferdinand, future Holy Roman Emperor, defeats John Zápolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Turks for help.
Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of Somalia defeats the Ethiopian army with his new firearms.
Members of the University of Wittenberg flee to Jena in fear of the bubonic plague.
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK is founded by Bishop John Vesey.
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.
The High Renaissance ends.

February 17 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
March 21 - Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (d. 1558)
April 14 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
July 13 - John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1608)
July 31 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
October 21 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
date unknown
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian artist (d. 1593)
- Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (d. 1591)
- Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (d. 1581)
- Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (d. 1575)
probable
- Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator (d. 1590)

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January 5 - Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptist (executed) (b. 1498)
January 21 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (b. 1489)
March 17 - Rana Sanga, Indian leader (at the Battle of Khanwa)
May - Thomas Docwra, 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)
July 28 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer (b. c. 1460)
October 27 - Johann Froben, printer and publisher (b. c. 1460)
November 15- Catherine of York Aunt of Henry VIII (b. 1479)
November 28 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
date unknown
- Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (b. 1433)
- Div Sultan Rumlu, Persian military leader
- Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk (b. c. 1450)
- Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. c. 1460)
- Jan "Ciężki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1479)
probable
- Jane Shore, most notorious mistress of King Edward IV of England

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