1530
| Years: 1527 1528 1529 – 1530 – 1531 1532 1533 | |
| Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s – 1530s – 1540s 1550s 1560s | |
| Centuries: 15th century – 16th century – 17th century | |
Events
- June 25 – Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire.
- August 12 – Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Orange. The Medici are restored in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de Medici.
- Knights of Malta are formed when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Pope Clement VIII.
- Ducal palace of Celle constructed.
- Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition to patrol the Brazilian coast, banish the French, and create the first colonial towns: São Vicente and São Paulo.
- Austrian forces capture Gran in Hungary, and raid as far as Buda.
- Copernicus presents his sun-based system.
Births
- February 18 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
- May 7 – Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French protestant general (d. 1569)
- August 25 – Ivan IV of Russia (d. 1584)
- November 6 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (d. 1576)
- Christopher Bathory, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1581)
- Guillaume Costeley, French composer
- Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (d. 1584)
Deaths
- April 27 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
- November 29 – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, British statesman
- December 26 – Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire (b. 1483)
- Quentin Matsys, Flemish painter (b. 1466)
- Fernando Lopes, Protuguese prisoner and first permanent resident of Saint Helena
Categories: 1530