Notable Historical Events - 1525
1525 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 21 |
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. |
Feb 10 |
Albert of Prussia pledges a personal oath to Sigismund I and is invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs |
Feb 20 |
Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army |
Feb 24 |
Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops beat the French. French King Francois I captured, 15,000 killed/wounded |
Mar 20 |
Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants |
May 10 |
Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague |
May 12 |
Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers |
May 15 |
The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded, 5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising |
May 17 |
Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels |
Jun 9 |
Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch |
Jul 11 |
Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague |
Jul 19 |
Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau |
Sep 7 |
Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague |
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