1525: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Events

• January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
• February 24 - Battle of Pavia - Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture King Francis
• March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date)
• Battle of Frankenhausen - Defeat of the rebellious peasants of Germany by the Lords. End of the Peasants' War.
• European brought diseases sweep through the Andes, killing thousands including the Inca.
• Mixco Viejo, capital of the Pocomam Maya state, falls to the Spanish Conquistadores (in what is now Guatemala).
• Albert of Prussia committed Prussian Tribut
• Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora
• Bubonic Plague in Southern France

• Catherine Howard, later fifth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England.

• Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec Emperor, tortured to death by his Spanish captors