1525

This article is about the year 1525.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1522 1523 1524 – 1525 – 1526 1527 1528

1525 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1525 MDXXV
Ab urbe condita	2278
Armenian calendar	974 ԹՎ ՋՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	6275
Bengali calendar	932
Berber calendar	2475
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 8 – 17 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2069
Burmese calendar	887
Byzantine calendar	7033–7034
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4221 or 4161     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4222 or 4162
Coptic calendar	1241–1242
Discordian calendar	2691
Ethiopian calendar	1517–1518
Hebrew calendar	5285–5286
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1581–1582
- Shaka Samvat	1447–1448
- Kali Yuga	4626–4627
Holocene calendar	11525
Igbo calendar	525–526
Iranian calendar	903–904
Islamic calendar	931–932
Japanese calendar	Daiei 5 (大永５年)
Julian calendar	1525 MDXXV
Korean calendar	3858
Minguo calendar	387 before ROC 民前387年
Thai solar calendar	2067–2068

William Tyndale

Year 1525 (MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
• February 24 – Battle of Pavia: Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.
• February 28 – The last Aztec Emperor, Cuauhtémoc, is killed by Hernán Cortéz.
• March 20 – In the German town Memmingen the pamphlet The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed is published , the first human rights related document written in Europe.
• April 10 – Albert of Prussia commits Prussian Homage.
• May 15 – Insurgent peasants led by radical pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
• June 13 – Martin Luther marries ex-nun Katharina von Bora. The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder is one of the witnesses.
• June 16 – Henry VIII of England appoints his illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.

July–December

• July 29 – Santa Marta, the first city in Colombia, is founded by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas.

Date unknown

• European-brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands, including the Inca.
• Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya State, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado in what is now Guatemala after a 3-month siege.
• The Bubonic Plague spreads in southern France.
• The New Testament is translated into English by William Tyndale.
• The first French ambassador arrives in Istanbul.
• The Chinese Ministry of War under the Ming Dynasty orders ships having more than one mast sailing along the southeast coast to be seized, investigated, and destroyed; this in an effort to curb piracy and limit private commercial trade abroad.
• Over 75,000 peasants are killed in Germany.
• Francis I of France and Suleiman I strike an alliance against Habsburg Empire.
• Age of Samael ends and the Age of Gabriel starts according to Johannes Trithemius.
• The word "spatula" is first used in English.

Births

• January 6 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
• January 29 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian Renaissance humanist and anti-Trinitarian reformer (d. 1562)
• February 5 – Juraj Drašković, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)
• March 19 – Caspar Cruciger the Younger, German theologian (d. 1597)
• March 25 Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet (d. 1566)
• March 26 – Katharina of Hanau, Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (d. 1581)
• June 29 – Peter Agricola, German Renaissance humanist, educator, classical scholar, theologian, diplomat and statesman (d. 1585)
• September 1 – Christoffer Valkendorff, Danish politician (d. 1601)
• September 11 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1598)
• September 25 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
• October 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
• November 7 – Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (d. 1575)
• December 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech astronomer (d. 1600)
• December 23 – John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1576)
• date unknown
  • Maharal of Prague, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher (d. 1609)
  • Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (d. 1560)
  • Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (d. 1586)
• probable
  • Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (d. 1569)
  • Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (d. 1603)
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
  • Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor (d. 1579)

Deaths

• January 24 – Franciabigio, Florentine painter (b. 1482)
• February 24 (in action at the Battle of Pavia)
  • Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (b. c. 1488)
  • Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer (b. 1470)
  • Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne
• February 28 – Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (executed) (b. c. 1502)
• May 5 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
• May 27 – Thomas Müntzer, German pastor and rebel leader (b. 1489) (executed)
• July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. c. 1456)
• November 17 – Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (b. 1458)
• December 30 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
• date unknown – Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
• probable – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (b. 1473)