Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1525. This year saw 13 significant events.
Swiss Anabaptist movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize one another in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops defeat the French, killing or wounding 5,000 and capturing French King Francis I
Theologian and excommunicated priest Martin Luther (41) weds ex-nun Katharina von Bora (26), against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns
Parliament of Paris begins persecuting Protestants
Church reformer John Pistorius is captured in The Hague
Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to...
Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
Tax revolt in 's-Hertogenbosch
Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
Second attempt to circumnavigate the globe as seven ships departs Corunna headed by García Jofre de Loaísa on orders of King Charles I of Spain for the Spice Islands (only one will make it)
Trial against heretic John Pistorius ends in The Hague
Swiss Anabaptist movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize one another in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops defeat the French, killing or wounding 5,000 and capturing French King Francis I
Theologian and excommunicated priest Martin Luther (41) weds ex-nun Katharina von Bora (26), against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns
Parliament of Paris begins persecuting Protestants
Church reformer John Pistorius is captured in The Hague
Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to...
Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
Tax revolt in 's-Hertogenbosch
Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
Second attempt to circumnavigate the globe as seven ships departs Corunna headed by García Jofre de Loaísa on orders of King Charles I of Spain for the Spice Islands (only one will make it)
Trial against heretic John Pistorius ends in The Hague