1526

Events

• January 14 – Treaty of Madrid. Peace between Francis I of France and Charles V. Francis agrees to cede Burgundy to Charles, and abandons all claims to Flanders, Artois, Naples, and Milan.
• May 22 – Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence.
• July 24 – Milan is captured by the Spanish.
• August 29 – Battle of Mohács. The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who is killed in the retreat. Suleiman takes Buda, while Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and John Zapolya, Prince of Transylvania, dispute over the succession.
• Dubrovnik achieves independence, although acknowledges Turkish overlordship.
• First official translation of the New Testament of the Bible in Swedish (cf 1541).
• First battle of Panipat – Babur becomes Moghul (or Mughal) emperor of India, captures Delhi, and invades Northern India, beginning the Mughal empire which would last until 1858.

• Emperor Go-Nara ascends to the throne of Japan.
• First official translation of the New Testament in English by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany about the spring of 1526.

Births

• Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of John III of Sweden (d. 1583)

Deaths

• January 19 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
• April 21 – Ibrahim Lodi, last Sultan of Delhi (died in battle)
• May 19, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
• August 4 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)