Explore 163 historical events from 1520–1529.
Augustus, who called himself Augustus and was popularly known as "Father August" in reference to his paternal rule, was Elector of Saxony from 1553 until his death. He belonged to …
Augustus, Elector of Saxony (died 1586)
The Battle of Mohács took place on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, in the Kingdom of Hungary. It was fought between the forces of Hungary, led by King Louis II, and the invading Ottoma…
Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of…
Elisabeth Brooke was an English courtier and noblewoman. She was the eldest daughter of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham of Kent and Anne Braye. Her relationship with William Parr, …
Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton (died 1565)
Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1532. With the support of his regent, his uncle Rupe…
Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1569)
Dorothy Stafford, Lady Stafford was an English noblewoman, and an influential person at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, to whom she served as Mistress of the Robes. Doro…
Dorothy Stafford, English noble (died 1604)
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara was the 104th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from November 16, 1500, to May 19, 1526. His personal name was …
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (born 1464)
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford was an English peer and landowner.
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English peer, landowner, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1499)
The Loaísa expedition was an early 16th-century Spanish voyage of discovery to the Pacific Ocean, commanded by García Jofre de Loaísa and ordered by King Charles I of Spain to colo…
García Jofre de Loaísa, Spanish explorer (born 1490)
Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan …
Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (born 1476)
Louis II was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526. He died during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans, whose victory led to the Ottoman annexation of large…
Louis II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1506)
Pál Tomori was a Catholic monk and archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary. He defeated an Ottoman army near Sremska Mitrovica in 1523.
Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (born 1475)
Toribio Alonso de Salazar was a Spanish navigator of Basque origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on 21 August 1526.
Alonso de Salazar, Spanish explorer
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlem…
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, Spanish explorer (born 1475)
Ibrahim Khan Lodi was the last Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate, who became Sultan in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Khan. He was the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, reig…
Ibrahim Khan Lodi, the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, was defeated and killed by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat,
The 1525 Bayham Abbey riot was a civil disturbance on 4 June 1525 in Kent, England. It was instigated by local residents near Bayham Abbey in protest against the closure of the Abb…
1525 Bayham Abbey riot; Villagers from Kent and Sussex, England riot and occupy Bayham Old Abbey for a week in protest a
Peter Agricola was a German Renaissance humanist, educator, classical scholar and theologian, diplomat and statesman, disciple of Martin Luther, friend and collaborator of Philipp …
Peter Agricola, German humanist, theologian, diplomat and statesman (died 1585)
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is it…
Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the Germ
Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his the…
Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and
John George of Brandenburg was a prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571–1598).
John George, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1598)
Steven Borough was an English navigator and an early Arctic explorer. He was master of the first English ship to reach the White Sea in 1553 and open trade with Russia on behalf of…
Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (died 1584)
Frederick III, also known as Frederick the Wise, was Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525, who is mostly remembered for the protection given to his subject Martin Luther, the…
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
Thomas Müntzer was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal …
Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian (born 1488)
Sir Richard Wingfield KG of Kimbolton Castle was an influential courtier and diplomat in the early years of the Tudor dynasty of England which included being England's Ambassador t…
Richard Wingfield, English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1426)
Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his the…
Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, beginning the practice of clerical marriage in Protestantism