Editing 1526 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Madrid (1526)|Treaty of Madrid]]: Peace is declared between [[Francis I of France]] and [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]. Francis agrees to cede [[Burgundy]] and abandons all claims to [[Flanders]], [[Artois]], [[Kingdom of Naples|Naples]], and [[Duchy of Milan|Milan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=R. J. Knecht|title=Francis I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEBMIIcHQkC&pg=PA189|date=26 April 1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-27887-4|pages=189}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; The deadline for [[Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain|Spanish Muslims to convert to Christianity or leave]] is reached in the [[Crown of Aragon]] and the [[Principality of Catalonia]] as decreed by the edict of November 25 by [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] acting in his capacity as King of Spain. The deadline for the [[Kingdom of Valencia]] had passed on December 31, 1525.<ref>L. P. Harvey, ''Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614'' (University of Chicago Press, 2005) p.94</ref>
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], Sultan of the [[Ottoman Empire]], agrees to form a military alliance with [[Kingdom of France|France]], after King [[Francis I of France|François I]] sends a proposal by way of his envoy, [[Jean Frangipani]].<ref>Roger B. Merriman, ''Suleiman the Magnificent, 1520–1566'' (Read Books, 2007) p.129 {{ISBN|1-4067-7272-0}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] &ndash; In [[Guatemala]], a group of 16 deserters from the Spanish colonial army destroy [[Iximche]], the capital of the indigenous kingdom of the Mayan [[Kaqchikel people]], and burn the palace of the ''Ahpo Xahil''<ref>{{cite book |author=Schele, Linda |author-link=Linda Schele |author2=Peter Mathews |year=1999 |title=The Code of Kings: The language of seven Maya temples and tombs |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |pages=298, 310 |isbn=978-0-684-85209-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/codeofkingslangu00lind }}</ref>
* [[February 15]] &ndash; Spanish author [[Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés]], commonly called "Oviedo", publishes the chronicle ''La Natural Hystoria De Las Indias'' (The Natural History of the Indies) <ref>{{Cite book |last=Stoudemire |first=Sterling A. |title=De La Natural Hystoria De Las Indias |publisher=University of North Caroline |year=1969}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Lopo Vaz de Sampaio]] becomes the new [[List of governors of Portuguese India|Governor]] of [[Portuguese India]] following the February 2 death of the 30-year-old Governor [[Henrique de Meneses]] from gangrene resulting from a battle injury to his leg.<ref>Mário Domingues, ''D. João III: o homem e a sua época'' (''Dom João III: The man and his times'') (Edição Romano Torres, 1962) p. 76-85</ref> 
* [[February 25]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Hisar Firoza]] is fought in what is now the Indian state of [[Haryana]], between the [[Mughal Empire]] (whose army is led by Prince [[Humayun]]) and the [[Delhi Sultanate]], led by Hamid Khan. Humayun, in his first command, leads the Mughals to victory.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rickard |first1=J |title=Battle of Hisar-Firuza |website=Historyofwar.org |date=May 15, 2010 |url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_hisar-firuza.html |access-date=August 31, 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The [[League of Torgau]] is formed as an alliance of German princes to oppose the 1521 [[Diet of Worms|Edict]] of [[Worms, Germany|Worms]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120206161315/http://www.historicum.net/themen/reformation/glossar/t/ Torgauer Bündnis] (The Torgau League) at historicum.net</ref>
* [[March 7]] &ndash; In Switzerland, the [[Canton of Zurich]] enacts a law directed against the [[Anabaptist]] movement, specifically outlawing a second [[baptism]] of an adult who was previously baptized as an infant, and makes the crime punishable by [[drowning]]. The penalty is enforced for the first time on January 5, 1527, when [[Felix Manz]] is executed.<ref>"Anabaptist", in ''The Mennonite Encyclopedia'', ed.by Harold S. Bender, et al., editors (Brethren Publishing House, 1955) {{ISBN|0-8361-1018-8}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash;
**After a defeat in battle of Afghan soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate by the Mughal Empire, the Mughal Emperor Babur and Crown Prince Humayun arrange the execution of 100 captured Afghan prisoners by "[[blowing from a gun]], the process of placing a tying a condemned prisoner to the mouth of a cannon and then firing.<ref>Abdul Sabahuddin and Rajshree Shukla,  (2003), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=FW4WqqLVzLEC&pg=PA122 The Mughal Strategy of War]'', p. 122</ref>
**[[Francis I of France|King François I]] of France is released from captivity in Spain after having signed the Treaty of Madrid.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Tarver |editor1-first=H. Micheal |editor1-link=H. Micheal Tarver |title=The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia |date=2016 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, California; Denver, Colorado |page=106 |isbn=978-16106-9-422-3 |volume=1 |edition=|series=Empires of the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LCJDAAAQBAJ}}Tarver 2016, p. 106</ref>  
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] and King of Spain, marries Princess [[Isabella of Portugal]] at the  [[Alcázar of Seville]] palace in Spain.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ford|first=Richard|title=A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home: Describing the Country and Cities, the Natives and Their Manners |year=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=248 |isbn=978-1108037532 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookfortrave01ford}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; King François I crosses from the [[Bidasoa|Bidasoa River]] from Spain into France, while at the same time, his sons [[Francis III, Duke of Brittany|the Dauphin Prince François]] and [[Henry II of France|Prince Henri]], 8 and 5 at the time,  cross into Spain to take his place as hostages to guarantee France's compliance with the Madrid Treaty. King François repudiates the treaty and the two boys remain captive for the next three years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knecht |first1=Robert J. |author1-link=Robert Knecht |title=Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=248 |isbn=978-0-521-57885-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/renaissancewarri00knec/page/n5/mode/2up }}</ref>
* [[March]] &ndash; The first complete printed translation of the [[New Testament]] of the [[Bible]] into the English language by [[William Tyndale]] arrives in England from Germany, where printing had been completed in [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] by [[Peter Schöffer the younger]], towards the end of February.<ref>David Daniell, ''Tyndale's New Testament'' (Yale University Press, 1995) p.ix</ref>