1530
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 April 27 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458) May 7 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, Huguenot general (d. 1569) August 25 - Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan The Terrible), first czar of all Russia. November 6 - Josias Simler, Swiss scholar, mostly known as the author of the first book pertaining entirely to the Alps. Thomas Jones (later known as Twm Shon Catti), Welsh outlaw, called the Welsh Robin Hood. (approximate date) Jan Kochanowski Christopher Bathory, a prince of Transylvania John Whitgift, English archbishop Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach, German composer Guillaume Costeley, French composer of Parisian chansons Claude Le Jeune, French composer of chansons
Deaths December 26 - Babur, founder of India's Mughal Empire November 29 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, British statesman Quentin Matsys a painter in the Flemish tradition, founder of the Antwerp school. Fernando Lopes, the first permanent resident of Saint Helena.
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