1525

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s – 1520s – 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1522 1523 1524 – 1525 – 1526 1527 1528

Events

February 24 – Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
February 26 – Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (tortured to death)
May 5 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
May 27 – Thomas Muentzer, German pastor and rebel leader (born 1489)
July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
December 30 – Jakob Fugger, German banker (born 1459)
Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (born 1473)
Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca (born 1493)
Franciabigio, Florentine painter (born 1482)
Jacques de la Palice, French nobleman and military officer
Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)
Nicholas Storch, weaver and reformer
Leonor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal