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January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zurich by the Zurich Reformed state church.
May 6 - Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
May 16 - Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
Spanish conquest of Guatemala highlands completed; first Guatemala City founded (Ciudad Vieja).
Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo invades Yucatán.
Battle of Tokay - Ferdinand of Austria defeats John Zapolya and takes over most of Hungary. John appeals to the Turks for help.
Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.
Ahmed Gran of Somalia defeats Abyssinians with his new firearms.
People of the university of Wittenberg flee plague to Jena.
Births
March 21 - Hermann Finck, German composer, teacher, and music theorist
May 21 - King Phillip II of Spain
July 13 - John Dee, mathematician, astronomer and geographer
July 31 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
? - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, artist
Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai
Deaths
June 21 - Niccolo Machiavelli
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