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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Gustav I of Sweden]] is crowned king of [[Sweden]], having already reigned since his election in June [[1523]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lillie Rollins Crawford|author2=Robert Junious Crawford|title=Roos Af Hjelmsäter: A Swedish Noble Family with Allied Families and Emigrants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqtPAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Gateway Press|page=420|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; The [[Canton of Bern]] becomes the second in [[Switzerland]] [[Reformation in Switzerland|to officially adopt Protestantism]] after 21-day debate, the [[Bern Disputation]]<ref>.{{Cite book |last1=Schaff |first1=Philip |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchris07scha/page/105/mode/2up |title=History of the Christian Church: The Swiss Reformation |last2=Schaff |first2=David Schley |date=1889 |publisher=New York, C. Scribner's |others=Princeton Theological Seminary Library |volume=7 |pages=102–106}}</ref>
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[John Zápolya]], ruler of the remaining eastern portion of [[Hungary]] after its the acquisition of the western section by the Habsburg Austrians, joins in an alliance with the Sultan [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] of the Ottoman Turks, receiving protection and autonomy in return for allowing Turkish occupation of his [[Eastern Hungarian Kingdom]].
* [[February]]
** Peasant uprising in [[Dalarna]], Sweden: The rebel campaign fails, and the rebel leader, later known as ''[[Nils Stensson Sture|Daljunkern]]'', flees to [[Rostock]].
** [[Diego García de Moguer]] explores the [[Sierra de la Plata]] along the [[Río de la Plata]], and begins to travel up the [[Paraná River]].<ref>''Los viajes de Diego García de Moguer''.</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Szina]] is fought in the Kingdom of Hungary between the two rival kings, [[John Zápolya]] of Eastern Hungary and [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Ferdinand of Austria]], the Habsburg King of Western Hungary. Zapolya and his 15,000-man army are defeated by mercenaries hired by the Habsburgs. 
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[:it:Assedio di Melfi|siege]] of the southern Italian city of [[Melfi]] is started by the French Army, under the command of Marshal [[Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec]]. After killing the defenders and pulling down the city walls, the French troops plunder what remains and massacre more than 3,000 men, women and children.<ref>Leonardo Santoro, ''La spedizione di Lautrec nel Regno di Napoli'' (Bari, 1972)</ref>