1525
| Years: 1522 1523 1524 – 1525 – 1526 1527 1528 | |
| Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s | |
| Centuries: 15th century – 16th century – 17th century | |
Events
- January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
- February 10 – Albert of Prussia committed Prussian Tribut.
- February 24 – Battle of Pavia – Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France.
- March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) – Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear
- May 15 – Battle of Frankenhausen – Defeat of the rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire by the Lords. End of the Peasants' War.
- June 16 – Henry VIII of England creates his illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
- June 27 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.
- European brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands including the Inca.
- Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya State, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado(in what is now Guatemala).
- Bubonic Plague in Southern France.
Births
Deaths
- February 26 – Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec Emperor (tortured to death)
- Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca (smallpox) (b. 1493)
- Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)
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