Explore 133 historical events from 1530–1539.
Tilman Riemenschneider was a German woodcarver and sculptor active in Würzburg from 1483. A master in limewood and stone, he was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of…
Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (born 1460)
Hosokawa Takakuni was the most powerful military commander in the Muromachi period under Ashikaga Yoshiharu, the twelfth shōgun. His father was Hosokawa Masaharu, a member of the b…
Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (born 1484)
Louis de Brézé, Seigneur d'Anet and Count of Maulévrier, was a French nobleman, the grandson of King Charles VII of France through his illegitimate daughter, born from his relation…
Louis de Brézé, French husband of Diane de Poitiers
The diets of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in the German city of Augsburg. Both an Imperial City and the residence of the Augsburg p…
At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Elect
Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery, Lord of Lorges and Ducey, was a French nobleman of Scottish extraction and captain of the Scots Guard of King Henry II of France. He is reme…
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (died 1574)
Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince of Condé was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Coming from a position of relative polit…
Louis, Prince of Condé (died 1569)
François de Montmorency, 2nd Duke of Montmorency was a French noble, governor, diplomat and soldier during the latter Italian Wars and the early French Wars of Religion. The son of…
François de Montmorency, French nobleman (died 1579)
Claude Fauchet was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernac…
Claude Fauchet, French historian and author (died 1601)
Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music…
Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (died 1590)
Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 u…
Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler (died 1584)
Mercurino Arborio, marchese di Gattinara, was an Italian statesman and jurist who served, from 1518 to 1530, as the principal chancellor of Charles V, the King of Spain and the Hol…
Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (born 1465)
Francesco Ferruccio was an Italian captain from Florence who fought in the Italian Wars.
Francesco Ferruccio, Italian captain (born 1489)
Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (born 1458)