PEACH

History

1525

Population: 480 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Pietro Bombo (Italian writing - not in Latin), Bourchier's translation of Part Two of Froissart's Chronicles, Juan Luis Vives writes paper demanding state help for the poor
Art includes Lorenzo Lotto "Portrait of a Young Man", Palma Vecchio "Three Sisters", Titian "Vanitas",
Geography: Diego Riberio, mapmaker of Spain, makes first charts of Pacific
Mathematics: Durer compiles first German manual on geometry
Religion: Matteo Bassi founds Capuchin Order
Luther marries former nun Katherine von Bora
William Tyndale's translation of New Testament printed by Peter Schoeffer at Worms
Deaths: Peasant revoolutionary Thomas Munzer, Merchant Jakob Fugger, Incan Huayna Capad (Capac)

General: Death of Huayna Capad (Huayna Capac) - Incan empire at height - begins to collapse under Spanish invasion – civil war in Inca kingdom between Huascar the 12th Sapa Inca ruling in south and brother Atahualpa ruling in north

General: Portuguese arrive at Caroline Islands near New Guinea and Palau Islands
India: Mogul Emperor Babar invades Punjab

General: Germans and Spanish defeat French and Swiss at Pavia – King Francis I is taken prisoner – Charles V becomes master of Italy – first use of muskets by Spanish infantry
\ Peace signed between England and France
England: Cardinal Wolsey presents Hampton Court to King Henry VIII and endows Cardinal College at Oxford
Hops introduced to England from Artois
German States: Grand master Albert of the Teutonic Knights transforms Prussia into secular duchy of Brandenburg with himself as Duke
Germany's Peasant's War in south - Peasants issue manifesto called "Twelve Articles of Memmingen" - but when peasants turned violent, Luther denounced it and it was crushed – Thomas Munzer executed
Neuremberg becomes Lutheran
Start of Duchy of Prussia in Germany
Hungary: Seven-year truce signed between Sultan of Turkey and King of Hungary
Scotland: Lutheran influences felt in Scotland
Spain: Muslims in Spain forced to convert
Switzerland: Swiss opponents of Zwingli begin to baptize adults, but this meant that they were opposed to the state religion - They get labeled "Anabaptists" and are thrown out of Zurich

Ottoman Empire: Seven-year truce signed between Sultan of Turkey and King of Hungary