What is 1527?
{{Year nav|1527}} {{Year in various calendars|1527}} {{Year article header|1527}} == Events == * [[January 5]] – [[Felix Manz]], co-founder of the [[Swiss Anabaptist]]s, is drowned in the [[Limmat River]] in [[Zürich City|Zürich]] by the Zürich Reformed state church. * [[May 6]] – [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Germany|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, Holy Roman Emperor|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]]: [[Emperor Ferdinand I|Ferdinand of Austria]] defeats [[John Zapolya]] and takes over most of [[Hungary]]. John appeals to the [[Turkey|Turks]] for help. * [[Protestant Reformation]] begins in [[Sweden]]. * [[Ahmed Gragn]] of [[Somalia]] defeats the [[Ethiopia]]n army with his new [[firearm]]s. * People of the [[University of Wittenberg]] flee [[plague]] to [[Jena]]. * [[Bishop Vesey's Grammar School]] in [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[West Midlands]], [[UK]] is founded by Bishop John Vesey. == Births == * [[March 21]] – [[Hermann Finck]], German composer and music theorist (died [[1558]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Abraham Ortelius]], cartographer and geographer (died [[1598]]) * [[July 13]] – [[John Dee]], English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (died [[1608]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (died [[1576]]) * [[Giuseppe Arcimboldo]], Italian artist (died [[1593]]) * [[Charles of Guise]], French Cardinal and member of the powerful House of Guise (died [[1574]]) * [[Lawrence Humphrey]], president of [[Magdalen College, Oxford]] (died [[1590]]) * [[Luis Ponce de León]], Spanish lyric poet (died [[1591]]) * [[Sakuma Nobumori]], Japanese retainer and samurai (died [[1581]]) * [[Annibale Padovano