1525

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1522 1523 1524 – 1525 – 1526 1527 1528

1525 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1525 (MDXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1525

January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
February 24 – Battle of Pavia: Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.
March 1, 1524/5 (approx. date) – Giovanni da Verrazzano lands near Cape Fear.
March 20, in the German town Memmingen was the Twelve Article, the first human rights in Europe written.
April 10 – Albert of Prussia commits Prussian Homage.
May 15 – Peasants' War – Battle of Frankenhausen: The rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire are defeated by the Lords, ending the war.
June 16 – Henry VIII of England creates his illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond and Somerset.

July 29 – Santa Marta, the first city in Colombia, is founded by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas.

European-brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands, including the Inca.
Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya State, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores of Pedro de Alvarado(in what is now Guatemala).
The Bubonic Plague spreads in southern France.
The New Testament is translated into English by William Tyndale.
The first French ambassador arrives in Istanbul.
The Chinese Ministry of War under the Ming Dynasty orders ships having more than one mast sailing along the southeast coast to be seized, investigated, and destroyed; this in an effort to curb piracy and limit private commercial trade abroad.
Over 75,000 peasants are killed in Germany.
The last Aztec Emperor, Cuautemoc, is killed by Hernán Cortéz.
Francis I of France and Suleiman I strike an alliance against Habsburg Empire.

January 6 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
January 29 – Lelio Sozzini, Humanist and Reformer (d. 1562)
September 11 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1598)
September 25 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
October 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
date unknown
- Maharal of Prague, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher (d. 1609)
- Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (d. 1560)
- Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (d. 1586)
probable
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (d. 1569)
- Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (d. 1603)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
- Hans Staden, German soldier and sailor (d. 1579)

January 24 – Franciabigio, Florentine painter (b. 1482)
February 24 (in action at the Battle of Pavia)
- Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (b. c. 1488)
- Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer (b. 1470)
- Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne
February 28 – Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (executed) (b. c. 1502)
May 5 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
May 27 – Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (b. 1489)
July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (b. c. 1456)
November 17 – Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (b. 1458)
December 30 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459)
date unknown
- Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
probable
- Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (b. 1473)