Major Events
- Mar 15 Second Diet of Speyer convenes, condemns and attempts to reverse 1526 Diet of Speyers relaxation of ban on Luther's teachings); official protest to attempted reversal on 25 April creates the term "Protestantism"
- Apr 22 Treaty of Saragosa: Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere
- May 6 Battle at Gogra: Mughal Emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals
- May 27 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
- Jun 9 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
- Jun 21 Battle of Landriano: Imperial-Spanish forces under Don Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova, beat a French army under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol
- Jun 21 Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court
- Jun 24 Zürich and Catholic cantons sign Peace of Kappel
- Jun 29 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Pope Clement VII sign the Treaty of Barcelona to bring peace to Italy and to repel Turkish advances
- Jul 6 Conquistador Hernán Cortés granted lands and title of Marquisate of the Oaxaca Valley by Spanish King Charles V [1]
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Born in 1529
- Apr 3 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer, born in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (d. 1581)
- Jun 7 Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters, born in Paris (d. 1615)
- Jun 14 Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Governor of Bohemia, born in Linz (d. 1595)
- Sep 1 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter (Villa dei Farnese at Caprarola), born in Sant'Angelo in Vado (d. 1566)
Who Died in 1529
- Jan 7 Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
- Feb 2 Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author, dies at 50
- Apr 16 Louis de Berquin, French humanist, reformer and heretic, burned at stake
- Apr 19 John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55
- Jun 21 John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69
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Martin Luther
Michelangelo
Charles V
Francis I of France
Henry VIII
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