1529

This article is about the year 1529.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s  1500s  1510s  – 1520s –  1530s  1540s  1550s
Years:	1526 1527 1528 – 1529 – 1530 1531 1532

1529 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1529 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1529 MDXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2282
Armenian calendar	978 ԹՎ ՋՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	6279
Bahá'í calendar	-315–-314
Bengali calendar	936
Berber calendar	2479
English Regnal year	20 Hen. 8 – 21 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2073
Burmese calendar	891
Byzantine calendar	7037–7038
Chinese calendar	戊子年十一月廿一日 (4165/4225-11-21) — to — 己丑年十二月初一日 (4166/4226-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1245–1246
Ethiopian calendar	1521–1522
Hebrew calendar	5289–5290
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1585–1586
- Shaka Samvat	1451–1452
- Kali Yuga	4630–4631
Holocene calendar	11529
Iranian calendar	907–908
Islamic calendar	935–936
Japanese calendar	Kyōroku 2 (享禄2年)
Korean calendar	3862
Minguo calendar	383 before ROC 民前383年
Thai solar calendar	2072

September 23: Suleiman besieges Vienna.

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

Events

January–June

• March 7–March 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 8 – Flensburg Disputation. The Disputation was a debate, attended by Stadtholder Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (later King Christian III of Denmark) between Lutherans (led by Hermann Fast) and the more radical Anabaptists (led by Melchior Hoffman). Johannes Bugenhagen, a close associate of Martin Luther, presided. The Disputation marks the rejection of radical ideas by the Danish Reformation.
• 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–July – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, presides over a legatine court at Blackfriars, London, to rule on the legality of King Henry VIII of England's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
• May 10 – The Turkish army under Suleiman I leaves Constantinople to invade Hungary once again.

July–December

• July 30 – Only Continental outbreak of English sweating sickness reaches Lübeck, spreading from there into Schleswig-Holstein in next few months.
• 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. Henry VIII of England accedes on August 27.
• 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.
• October 26 – Cardinal Wolsey falls from power in England due to his failure to prevent Habsburg expansion in Europe and obtain an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage. Thomas More succeeds him as Lord Chancellor.
• November 4–December 17 – First sitting of the English Reformation Parliament.

Date unknown

• 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, Switzerland.
• Paracelsus visits Nürnberg.
• Paracelsus uses the name Paracelsus for the first time.

Births

• February 23 – Onofrio Panvinio, Augustinian historian (died 1568)
• April 3 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and historian (died 1581)
• April 25 – Francesco Patrizi, Italian philosopher and scientist (died 1597)
• June 7 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer, poet and author (died 1615)
• June 14 – Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (died 1595)
• December 11 – Fulvio Orsini, humanist historian (died 1600)
• date unknown
  • Titu Cusi, Inca ruler of Vilcabamba (died 1571)
  • Giambologna, Italian sculptor (died 1608)
  • Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland (died 1586)
  • Michał Wiśniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (died 1584)
  • Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (died 1566)
  • George Puttenham, critic (died 1590)

Deaths

• January 7 – Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (born 1455)
• February 2 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (born 1478)
• February 4 – Ludwig Haetzer, German Protestant reformer (executed) (born 1500)
• April 20 – Silvio Passerini, cardinal and lord of Florence (born 1469)
• June 21 – John Skelton, English poet (born c. 1460)
• September 6 – George Blaurock, Swiss founder of the Anabaptist Church (born 1491)
• November 20 – Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio (born c. 1490)
• date unknown
  • Krishnadevaraya, Vijaynagar emperor
  • Richard Pynson, printer (born 1448)
  • Andrea Sansovino, Italian sculptor (born 1467)
  • Petrus Särkilahti, Finnish Lutheran and scientist
  • Paulus Aemilius Veronensis, Italian historian (born 1455)
  • Wang Yangming, Chinese official (born 1472)
• probable – Lo Spagna, Italian painter
• possible – La Malinche, interpreter and translator for Hernán Cortés during the Conquest of Mexico