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

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

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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.^[1]
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.^[2]
May 10 – The Turkish army under Suleiman I leaves Constantinople to invade Hungary once again.

July 30 – Only Continental outbreak of English sweating sickness reaches Lübeck, spreading from there into Schleswig-Holstein in next few months.^[3]
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.^[4]
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.^[4]
November 4–December 17 – First sitting of the English Reformation Parliament.^[4]

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.
Occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa publishes Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus ("Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex"), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women.

February 23 – Onofrio Panvinio, Augustinian historian (d. 1568)
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, poet and author (d. 1615)
June 14 – Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1595)
December 11 – Fulvio Orsini, humanist historian (d. 1600)
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)
- George Puttenham, critic (d. 1590)

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
- Richard Pynson, printer (b. 1448)
- Andrea Sansovino, Italian sculptor (b. 1467)
- Petrus Särkilahti, Finnish Lutheran and scientist
- Paulus Aemilius Veronensis, Italian historian (b. 1455)
- Wang Yangming, Chinese official (b. 1472)
probable – Lo Spagna, Italian painter
possible – La Malinche, interpreter and translator for Hernán Cortés during the Conquest of Mexico

^ Collins, WE (1903) The Scandinavian North, in AW Ward, GW Prothero & Stanley Leathes (eds.) The Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 599-638.
^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 142–145. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Christiansen, John (2009), The English Sweat in Lübeck and North Germany, 1529. Med. Hist. 53: 415-424.
^ ^a ^b ^c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 204–210. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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