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1530 CE

Tangaxuan II, last cazonci of the Purépecha Empire, is executed by conquistador Nuño de Guzmán, ending the Purépecha Empire's independence from Spain. The Augsburg Confession is presented to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The Knights of Malta are formed, when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Charles V. They transfer the island capital from Mdina to Birgu.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • October 26 – The Knights of Malta are formed, when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Charles V. They transfer the island capital from Mdina to Birgu.source

Conflict & Security

  • February 14 – Tangaxuan II, last cazonci of the Purépecha Empire, is executed by conquistador Nuño de Guzmán, ending the Purépecha Empire's independence from Spain.source
  • May 9 – The Kaqchikel people, a tribe of the Maya people of what is now the Sacatepéquez Department of Guatemala, surrender to the Spanish conquistadors.source
  • July 19 – Turkish Ottoman troops attempt to take the Hungarian town of Nagykörű but, according to local legend, the Turkish soldiers are lost in a marsh protecting the city.source
  • July 25 – The transfer of Tripoli, in North Africa, from Spain to the Knights of Malta, is formally accomplished, four months after an agreement was reached with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain and King of Sicily.source
  • August 3 – Battle of Gavinana: Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Chalon (who is killed in the action). The Piagnon (followers of the memory of Girolamo Savonarola) are overthrown, ending the Siege of Florence, and the Medici are restored, in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de' Medici.source
  • November 24 – Tabinshwehti succeeds his father Mingyi Nyo as king of the Toungoo dynasty, following the latter's death.source
  • December 26 – Humayun starts to rule the Mughal Empire after Babur's death.source
  • Austrian forces capture Esztergom, Hungary, and raid as far as Buda.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • January 20 – Sent on a mission to penetrate the interior of Mexico and to conquer the Kingdom of Michoacán, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés leads a group of soldiers across the Lerma river through Cuitzeo and proceeds northwest. They arrive at Tonalá on March 24 and then take possession of the regions south of the Santiago River and north and west of Lake Chapala.source
  • July 30 – At Neue Augsburg (now Coro in the nation of Venezuela), German explorer Nikolaus Federmann becomes the acting governor of Klein-Venedig ("Little Venice") Germany's short-lived South American colony as Governor Ambrosius Ehinger takes a leave of absence to recover from malaria.source
  • December – Martim Afonso de Sousa's expedition sets out for Brazil from Portugal.source

Religion & Belief

  • January 5 – Strasbourg joins the Christliches Burgrecht, the Protestant alliance of Swiss cities.source
  • January 21 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues letters from his winter residence in Bologna, inviting members of the Imperial Diet to convene at Augsburg on April 8 to discuss various theological questions.source
  • February 24 – Charles V is crowned emperor in Bologna, by Pope Clement VII.source
  • April 8 – At the invitation of the Holy Roman Emperor, the members of the Imperial Diet open their session at Augsburg in Germany to prepare the Augsburg Confession, an official imperial set of rules for Protestantism.source
  • June 25 – The Augsburg Confession is presented to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • July 9 – The Tetrapolitan Confession, a Protestant confession of faith, is submitted jointly to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V on behalf of the southern German cities of Konstanz, Lindau, Memmingen and Strasbourg.source
  • September 15 – The miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano appears in Soriano Calabro, Calabria.source
  • Erasmus publishes On Civility in Children (De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus), which becomes popular and widely translated.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • The ducal palace of Celle is constructed in Germany.source

Climate & Environment

  • October 8 – A flood engulfs Rome.source
  • November 5 – St. Felix's flood devastates Zeeland: a large part of the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is lost leading to decline of the city of Reimerswaal.source

Culture & Society

  • March 23 – The Tribute of the Maltese Falcon, an agreement by the Grand Master of the Order of St John of Jerusalem to pay an annual tribute to the Charles V, King of Sicily, in return for an order granting the Knights full rulership of Tripoli and the islands of Malta and Gozo, is reached. The transfer of ownership takes place on October 26, 1550, although Tripoli is conquered by the Ottomans on August 15, 1551.source
  • July 4 – King François of France marries Eleanor of Austria, daughter of King Philip the Handsome of Castile and widow of King Manuel I of Portugal.source
  • First complete edition of the 'Zürich Bible', Huldrych Zwingli's translation into German printed by Christoph Froschauer, is published.source

Births

  • January 5 – Gaspar de Bono, Spanish monk of the Order of the Minims (d. 1571)source
  • January 31 – Ōtomo Sōrin, Japanese Christian Daimyō (d. 1587)source
  • February 17 – Louis III, Count of Löwenstein (d. 1611)source
  • February 26 – David Chytraeus, German historian and theologian (d. 1600)source
  • March 11 – Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1573)source
  • June 17 – François de Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1579)source
  • June 23 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (d. 1584)source
  • July 3 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1602)source
  • August 14 – Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590)source
  • September 30 – Geronimo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)source
  • October 30 – Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)source
  • November 1 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)source
  • November 6 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (d. 1576)source
  • December 1 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (d. 1616)source

Deaths

  • February 7 – Enrique de Cardona y Enríquez, Spanish Catholic cardinal and bishop (b. 1485)source
  • February 24 – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (b. c. 1490)source
  • April 12 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (b. 1462)source
  • May 3 – Stephen VII Báthory, Hungarian nobleman and military commandersource
  • June 5 – Mercurino di Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (b. 1465)source
  • June 28 – Margaret of Münsterberg, Duchess consort and regent of Anhalt (b. 1473)source
  • August 2 – Kanō Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate (b. 1434)source
  • August 6 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)source
  • August 10 – Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (b. 1460)source
  • September 13 – Queen Jeonghyeon, Korean royal consort (b. 1462)source
  • October 10 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English noble (b. 1477)source
  • November 24 – Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (b. 1459)source
  • December 1 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)source
  • December 22 – Willibald Pirckheimer, German humanist (b. 1470)source