1527

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1524 1525 1526 – 1527 – 1528 1529 1530

Events

• January 5 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, is drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.
• May 6 – Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
• May 16 – Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
• Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands completed; first Guatemala City founded (Ciudad Vieja).
• Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo invades Yucatán.
• Battle of Tokay: Ferdinand of Austria defeats John Zapolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Turks for help.
• Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.
• Ahmed Gragn of Somalia defeats the Ethiopian army with his new firearms.
• People of the University of Wittenberg flee plague to Jena.
• Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK is founded by Bishop John Vesey.

Births

• March 21 – Hermann Finck, German composer and music theorist (died 1558)
• April 14 – Abraham Ortelius, cartographer and geographer (died 1598)
• July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (died 1608)
• July 31 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1576)
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian artist (died 1593)
• Charles of Guise, French Cardinal and member of the powerful House of Guise (died 1574)
• Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (died 1590)
• Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (died 1591)
• Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (died 1581)
• Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (died 1575)
• Philip II of Spain

Deaths

• January 21 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (born 1489)
• June 21 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (born 1469)
• July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer (born 1460)
• Boabdil, last Moorish king of Granada (of the Nasrid dynasty)
• Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (born 1490)
• Francesco Colonna, Italian Dominican priest (born 1433)
• Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (born 1458)
• Felix Manz, co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich
• Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect
• Jan "Ciezki" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman