Major Events
- Jan 21 Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
- Feb 24 Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops defeat the French killing or wounded 5,000 and capturing French King Francis I
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Born in 1525
- Jan 6 Caspar Peucer, German reformer, born in Bautzen, Germany (d. 1602)
- Feb 3 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, born in Palestrina, Papal States (d. 1594) [birthday unconfirmed]
- Sep 11 Johan Georg, Elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), born in Cölln, Germany (d. 1598)
- Sep 25 Steven Borough, English explorer, born in Northam, Devon, England (d. 1584)
- Dec 1 Tadeáš Hájek, Czech naturalist, physician and astronomer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1600)
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Famous Weddings in 1525
- Jun 13 Theologian and excommunicated priest Martin Luther (41) weds ex-nun Katharina von Bora (26), against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns
Martin Luther
Michelangelo
Charles V
Francis I of France
Henry VIII
Suleiman the Magnificent