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1530

Years: 1527 1528 1529 - 1530 - 1531 1532 1533

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

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
• In Brazil there was a new expedition from Martin Afonso de Souza to patrol the entire coast, banish the French, and to 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

• 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

Deaths

• December 26 - Babur, founder of India's Mughal Empire
• 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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