Editing 1525 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The [[Anabaptist]] Movement is born<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gordon |first1=Bruce |title=The Swiss Reformation |date=2002 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-5118-0 |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M0W8AAAAIAAJ&q=%2221%20january%22 |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> 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]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hershberger |first1=Guy Franklin |title=Das Täufertum: Erbe und Verpflichtung |date=1963 |publisher=Evangelisches Verlagswerk |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDyej9uelbIC&q=%20%E2%80%9E21.%20Januar%201525%E2%80%9C |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref> breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[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 to Madrid, the first attempts to form a [[Franco-Ottoman alliance]] with [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] against the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] are made.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Giono|title=The Battle of Pavia, 24th February, 1525|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-FnAAAAMAAJ|year=1965|publisher=P. Owen|page=134}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; The last Aztec Emperor, [[Cuauhtémoc]], is killed by [[Hernán Cortés]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ludlow |first1=Úrsula Camba |last2=Rosas |first2=Alejandro |title=Cara o cruz: Hernán Cortés |date=21 October 2018 |publisher=Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México |isbn=978-607-31-7361-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAtuDwAAQBAJ&q=%2228+de+febrero%22 |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=es|quote=Cortés again preferred to get up early, rather than being woken up early, and on February 28, 1525, he ordered Cuauhtémoc to be executed. Thus ended the story of the last emperor of the Aztecs.}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; 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,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Franz |first1=Günther |title=Die Entstehung der "Zwölf Artikel" der deutschen Bauernschaft |journal=Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History |date=1 December 1939 |volume=36 |issue=jg |pages=193–213 |doi=10.14315/arg-1939-jg14 |s2cid=163739674 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.14315/arg-1939-jg14/html |access-date=31 July 2023 |language=de |issn=2198-0489}}</ref> the first human rights related document written in Europe.