History
1526
General
Population: 481 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Hector Boece (history of Scots), Martin Luther (German Mass),
Art includes Durer "The Four Apostles", Hans Holbein the Younger visits England fir first time
- Exploration: Elcano (Magellan's navigator) reaches Europe
- Religion: Luther writes German Mass
Tyndale publishes English New Testament (in Germany)
- Science: The Grete Herball describes poisonous and non-poisonous mushrooms
- Sports: Card game piquet first played
- Deaths: Louis II of Hungary, Lute player and composer Hans Judenkunig,
Africa
- Ethiopia: End of Portuguese mission
Americas
- Caribbean: Hispaniola hurricane
- Mexico: Dominican monks arrive in Mexico
- North America: First Africans in US area – brought by Spanish
- Peru: Smallpox
Pizarro spots an Incan trading ship laden with gold - stories of gold cities spread
Asia
- India: Babur (Babar), Mughol (Mongol) descendant of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane invades India raiding Delhi Sultanate under Shah Ibrahim (from Afghanistan)
Babar and The Lodis at Panipat and overrun North India
- Papua New Guinea: Portuguese arrive at Papua New Guinea
Europe
- General: Anglo-Scot peace signed
League of Cognac – allicance between François I, Pope Clement VII, Francesco Sforza of Milan Venice and Florence against Charles V
- Czechoslovakia: Anabaptists settle down as "Moravian Brothers" in Moravia
Ferdinand of Austria brother of Charles V succeeds to Bohemian throne
- Holy Roman Empire: Charles V marries Isabella of Portugal
- Hungary: Battle of Mohacs – Turks defeat Hungarians – killing Louis II of Hungary
Sultan Sueliman II takes Buda
Pressburg (Bratislava) declared capital of Hungary – both John Zapolya and Ferdinand of Austria are crowned King
Persecution of Jews
- Italian States: Treaty of Madrid – Francois I gives up claims to Milan Genoa and Naples but fails to keep the treaty
- Portugal: Francisco de Sade Miranda founds Italianate school of literature
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Turks under Suleiman defeat Hungary at Mohacs killing Louis II of Bohemia and Hungary – dispute over Hungarian succession between Ferdinand and Ottoman Empire