Bartolomeo Veneto, 1520. “Saint Catherine Crowned” (Detail)
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19th of July 1525. Catholic rulers formed the League of Dessau to suppress peasant rebellions and curb Protestantism, led by Margaret of Münsterberg. It lasted briefly, influenced by recent peasant defeats, and Anhalt-Dessau later converted to Lutheranism.
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25th of June 1525. Henry FitzRoy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, was formally granted the titles of Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
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13th of June 1525. Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, a former nun who had fled from a convent. Luther was 41 years old, and Katharina was 26
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10th of June 1525. Florian Geyer, German nobleman, diplomat, and knight, was killed by his brother-in-law's servants in the Gramschatz Forest near Würzburg, while traveling with them under false pretenses of receiving help. He was 34-35.
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10th of June 1525. Japanese painter Tosa Mitsunobu dies in Kyoto, Japan. He was 91. Here are some of his works.
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7th of June 1525. Albrecht Dürer, a prominent figure in the Northern Renaissance, experienced a profound and apocalyptic nightmare that he later documented in a watercolour painting and descriptive text.
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4th of June 1525. During the Second Battle of Würzburg, Hans Müller and a small group of peasants joined Franconian farmers but were defeated by Götz von Berlichingen, resulting in over 8,000 peasant deaths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...
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27th of May 1525. Thomas Müntzer was captured after the Battle of Frankenhausen, tortured, and executed, alongside Pfeiffer, outside Free Imperial City of Mühlhausen, Holy Roman Empire, after leading a peasant uprising against feudal authority. He was 35-36.
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18th of May 1525. Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher, dies in Bologna, Papal States. He was 62.
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17th of May 1525. Duke Antoine of Lorraine's forces decisively defeated a peasant army at the Battle of Saverne, also known as the Battle of Zabern. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...
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15th of May 1525. Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire
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14th of May 1525. Peasants led by Thomas Müntzer repelled a scouting party of princely troops near Frankenhausen, but withdrew into a wagon fort on a hill as the main enemy column arrived.
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5th of May 1525. Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, died unmarried at age 62 in Castle Lochau near Annaburg, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire, and was succeeded by his brother John the Steadfast.
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16th of April 1525. On Easter 1525, rebellious peasants stormed the castle of Weinsberg. Led by Semelhans, they captured Count Ludwig von Helfenstein and other nobles, forcing them to run the gauntlet and executing them.
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12th of April 1525. In Zurich, the Catholic Mass was celebrated for the last time as an established act of the church, marking the end of the traditional Catholic Mass in Zurich as part of the Reformation
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10th of April 1525. The Prussian Homage took place in Kraków, where Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Duke of Prussia, paid tribute to King Sigismund I the Old.
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25th of March 1525. Conrad Grebel arrived at St. Gall Switzerland and began preaching about the importance of repentance and baptism.
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Here, two eclipses are shown: Moon in Pisces represents the eclipse on March 1st, Moon in Virgo the eclipse on August 26
by Aegidius Camillus, Nuremberg (1523) #eclipse #renaissance #german #virgo #1520s #woodcut #astrology #astronomy
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[January 18th, 1525] Hark what ordinance of Zurich's council doth proclaim: all newborn babes muſt be baptiſed within eight days to claim full right of citizenſhip. Thereafter, Anabaptiſts ſhall face perſecution's bitter ſting.
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[January 17th, 1525] Zurich City Council holds a public debate on infant baptism, which reformer Ulrich Zwingli has mandated as a covenantal act, but which Anabaptists such as Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz oppose, saying that baptism symbolizes a believer’s commitment to Christ.
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Document in Ottoman Turkish.
■ The Document of Sale for Half the Shares of the Linseed Oil Mill Located in the Village of Yenibosna, Istanbul, July 20, 1526 #history #historia #historie #1520s #16thcentury