1529

Year 1529 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1529

January - June

* March 7/9 - Battle of Shimbra Kure: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, with 200 men armed with matchlocks, defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia.
* April 19 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers ("German:" Fürst) and independent cities ("German:" Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement.
* April 22 - The Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal, stipulating that the dividing line should lie 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
* May 10 - The Turkish army under Suleiman I leaves Constantinople to once again invade Hungary.

July - December

* August 5 - Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Cambrai, or the "Ladies' Peace". Francis abandons his claims in Italy, but is allowed to retain Burgundy.
* September 8
**Buda is recaptured by the invading Turkish forces.
**The city of Maracaibo, Venezuela is founded by Ambrosius Ehinger.
* September 23 - Vienna is besieged by the Turkish forces of Suleiman.
* October 15 - With the season growing late, Suleiman abandons the siege.

Undated

* Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, fails to bring about the divorce and annulment Henry VIII had sought and is forced to resign.
* Aylesbury is granted the county town of Buckinghamshire in England by King Henry VIII.
* Stephen Báthory becomes governor of Transylvania.

* Boromrajathira IV succeeds Rama Thibodi II as king of Ayutthaya.
* Fluorine is first described by Georg Agricola.
* Giorgio Vasari visits Rome.
* Pietro Bembo becomes historiographer of Venice.
* Heinrich Bullinger becomes pastor of Bremgarten.

Births

* April 3 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and historian (d. 1581)
* April 25 - Francesco Patrizi, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1597)
* June 7 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
* June 14 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1595)
*"date unknown"
**Titu Cusi, Inca ruler of Vilcabamba (d. 1571)
**Giambologna, Italian sculptor (d. 1608)
**Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland (d. 1586)
**Michał Wiśniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (d. 1584)
**Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (d. 1566)

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Deaths

* January 7 - Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (b. 1455)
* February 2 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
* February 4 - Ludwig Haetzer, German Protestant reformer (executed) (b. 1500)
* April 20 - Silvio Passerini, cardinal and lord of Florence (b. 1469)
* June 21 - John Skelton, English poet (b. c. 1460)
* September 6 - George Blaurock, Swiss founder of the Anabaptist Church (b. 1491)
* November 20 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio (b. c. 1490)
*"date unknown"
**Krishnadevaraya, Vijaynagar emperor
**Andrea Sansovino, Italian sculptor (b. 1467)
**Petrus Särkilahti, Finnish Lutheran and scientist
**Wang Yangming, Chinese official (b. 1472)
*"probable"
**Lo Spagna, Italian painter
*"possible"
**La Malinche, interpreter and translator for Hernán Cortés during the Conquest of Mexicon

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