1527

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 1530

1527 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1527 MDXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2280
Armenian calendar	976 ԹՎ ՋՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6277
Balinese saka calendar	1448–1449
Bengali calendar	934
Berber calendar	2477
English Regnal year	18 Hen. 8 – 19 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2071
Burmese calendar	889
Byzantine calendar	7035–7036
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4224 or 4017 — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4225 or 4018
Coptic calendar	1243–1244
Discordian calendar	2693
Ethiopian calendar	1519–1520
Hebrew calendar	5287–5288
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1583–1584
- Shaka Samvat	1448–1449
- Kali Yuga	4627–4628
Holocene calendar	11527
Igbo calendar	527–528
Iranian calendar	905–906
Islamic calendar	933–934
Japanese calendar	Daiei7 (大永7年)
Javanese calendar	1445–1446
Julian calendar	1527 MDXXVII
Korean calendar	3860
Minguo calendar	385 before ROC 民前385年
Nanakshahi calendar	59
Thai solar calendar	2069–2070
Tibetan calendar	阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1653 or 1272 or 500 — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1654 or 1273 or 501

January–March

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January 1 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as King of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
January 5 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the LimmatinZürich 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.^[1]
February 21 – The Mughal–Rajput wars begin in India between the Emperor Babur of the Mughal Empire and states of the Rajput Confederacy, with the victory of the Rajput faction at the Battle of Bayana.
February 24 –
- Ferdinand of the House of Habsburg is formally crowned as King of BohemiaatPressburg (now BratislavainSlovakia).
- The seven articles of the Schleitheim Confession are formally adopted by the Mennonite Anabaptist Christians at Schleitheim in the Canton of SchaffhauseninSwitzerland.^[2]
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.^[3]
March 25 – The Confederation of Shan States sacks Ava, the capital of the Ava Kingdom.^[4]

April–June

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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 EstatesinVästerås 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.^[5]

July–September

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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.^[6]
July 25 – The Battle of Sződfalva is fought near Szeged in what is now Hungary, with an army of Hungarians and Romanian Transylvanians defeating a Serbian army led by Jovan Nenad, the self-proclaimed Emperor of the Serbs. The next day, Nenad is assassinated for his failure in battle.
August 3 – The first known letter is sent from North America by John Rut, while at St. John's, Newfoundland, during his voyage to the New World.
August 20
- Sixty Anabaptists meet at the Martyrs' SynodinAugsburg.
- Diet of Odense (Denmark): King Frederick I declares religious tolerance for Lutherans, permits marriage of priests and forbids seeking papal pallium (approval) for royal appointments of Church officials.^[7]^[8]
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

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October 5 – French and Venetian troops kill thousands of civilians in the Italian city of Pavia, even after the defenders agree to surrender.^[9]
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.^[10]
November 3 – Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is formally crowned as the King of Hungary at the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MaryatSzékesfehérvár.
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.^[11]
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.^[12]
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.^[13]
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 TrnavainSlovakia.^[14]
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.^[15]
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.^[10]

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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.
InEngland, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School (atSutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands) is founded by Bishop John Vesey; and Sir George Monoux College is founded as a grammar schoolatWalthamstow 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.

Anna Sophia of Prussia

Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal

March 4 – Ludwig Lavater, Swiss Reformed theologian (d. 1586)
March 5 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
March 10 – Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio, Italian nobleman (d. 1587)
March 21 – Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (d. 1558)
March 28 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (d. 1579)
March 31 – Edward Fitton, the elder, Irish politician (d. 1579)
April 14 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
c. May 1 – Johannes Stadius, German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (d. 1579)
May 21 – Philip II, King of Spain (d. 1598)^[16]
May 31 – Agnes of Hesse, German noble, by marriage, Princess of Saxony (d. 1555)
June 11 – Anna Sophia of Prussia, Duchess of Prussia and Duchess of Mecklenburg (d. 1591)
June 24 – Jean Vendeville, French law professor, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1592)
July 8 – Saitō Yoshitatsu, Japanese daimyō (d. 1561)
July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1608)^[17]
July 31 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
August 10 – Barbara of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brieg, German princess (d. 1595)
September 29 – John Lesley, Scottish bishop (d. 1596)
October 2 – William Drury, English politician (d. 1579)
October 15 – Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal (d. 1545)
October 21 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1578)
November 1
- Pedro de Ribadeneira, Spanish hagiologist (d. 1611)
- William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, English noble and politician (d. 1597)
November 3 – Tilemann Heshusius, Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (d. 1588)
November 18 – Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter (d. 1585)
December 6 – Bernhard VIII, Count of Lippe (d. 1563)
December 23 – Hugues Doneau, French lawyer (d. 1591)
date unknown
- Luis de León, Spanish lyric poet and mystic (d. 1591)
- Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (d. 1575)
probable
- John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1554)
- Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator (d. 1590)

Juan de Grijalva

Niccolò Machiavelli

Rodrigo de Bastidas

January 5 – Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptists (executed) (b. 1498)
January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conqueror (b. 1489)
March 14 – Shwenankyawshin, Burmese king of Ava (b. 1476)
March 17 – Rana Sanga, Indian ruler (b. 1484)
April 19
- Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1453)
- Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1477)
April/May – Sir Thomas Docwra, English 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)^[18]
June 28 – Bernardo de' Rossi, Italian bishop (b. 1468)
July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conqueror and explorer (b. c. 1460)
July 31 – Anna Swenonis, Swedish manuscript illuminator
September 21 – Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margrave of Bayreuth (b. 1481)
October 27 – Johann Froben, Swiss printer and publisher (b. c. 1460)
November 15 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)^[19]
November 8 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
date unknown
- Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (b. 1433)
- Luisa de Medrano, Spanish scholar (b. 1484)
- Div Sultan Rumlu, Persian military leader
- Petrus Thaborita, Frisian historian and monk (b. c. 1450)
- Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. c. 1460)
- Jan『Ciężki』Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1479)
- Huayna Capac, Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire (b. 1493)
- Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligrapher and type designer (b. 1475)
probable – Jane Shore, mistress of King Edward IV of England

^ Jansen, Sharon L. (2002). The monstrous regiment of women: female rulers in early modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 99. ISBN 0-312-21341-7.

^ Donald B. Kraybill, Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) p.25

^ K. V. Krishna Rao (1991). Prepare Or Perish: A Study of National Security. Lancer Publishers. p. 453. ISBN 978-81-7212-001-6.

^ Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 137

^ Indonesia, the First 50 Years, 1945-1995. Buku Antar Bangsa. 1995. p. 119. ISBN 978-979-8926-00-6.

^ Fisher, William Bayne; Jackson, Peter; Lockhart, Lawrence (1986). The Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 0521200946. Retrieved September 16, 2015.

^ Steffensen, Kenneth (2007). Scandinavia After the Fall of the Kalmar Union: a Study of Scandinavian Relations, 1523-1536. Unpubl. M.A. Thesis, Brigham Young University.

^ Fisher, George P (1873). The Reformation. Scribner.

^ Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571. Vol. III: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III. American Philosophical Society. p. 286.

^ ^a ^b Stuessy Wright, Ione (1951). Voyages of Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón 1527-1529. Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press.

^ Sarkar, Jadunath (1984). A History of Jaipur: C. 1503-1938. Orient Longman Limited. p. 33. ISBN 81-250-0333-9.

^ Holland under Habsburg Rule, 1506–1566, p. 75; Chapter three: The States of Holland and the Management of War

^ Pons Sáez, Nuria (1997). La Conquista del Lacandón. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. pp. xix–xxix. ISBN 968-36-6150-5. OCLC 40857165.

^ Gyula Zolnai, Nyelvemlékeink a könyvnyomtatás koráig ("Our language heritage before the age of printing")(Budapest, 1894)

^ Gayangos (ed.), Calendar Simancas III, part 2, p. 475. Creighton, Mandell (1897). A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. Vol. VI. London: Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 361. ISBN 9780837077819.

^ Patrick Williams (March 14, 2017). Philip II. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4039-1381-4.^{[permanent dead link]}

^ Peter J. French (1987). John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus. Psychology Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7448-0079-1.

^ Phil Harris; Andrew Lock; Patricia Rees (April 20, 2000). Machiavelli, Marketing and Management. Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-134-60568-2.

^ Panton, James (February 24, 2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.

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Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

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