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=== January–June ===

* [[January 21]] – The Swiss [[Anabaptist]] Movement is born when [[Conrad Grebel]], [[Felix Manz]], [[George Blaurock]], and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, [[Zürich]], breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

* [[February 24]] – [[Battle of Pavia]]: German and [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] forces under [[Charles de Lannoy]] and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the [[Kingdom of France|French]] army, and capture [[Francis I of France]], after his horse is wounded by [[Cesare Hercolani]]. While Francis is imprisoned in Lombardy and then transferred in Madrid, the first attempts to form a [[Franco-Ottoman alliance]] with [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] against the [[Habsburg Monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] are made.

* [[February 28]] – The last Aztec Emperor, [[Cuauhtémoc]], is killed by [[Hernán Cortés]].

* [[March 20]] – In the [[Holy Roman Empire|German]] town of [[Memmingen]], the pamphlet ''The [[Twelve Articles]]: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed'' is published, the first human rights related document written in Europe.