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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Basarab VI]] is installed as the new [[List of princes of Wallachia|Prince of Wallachia]] (now in Romania) in the capital at [[Târgoviște]], days after the assassination of the Voivode [[Radu of Afumați]] by the other [[boyar]]s (Wallachian nobles).<ref>{{Cite book |title=Cronologia critică a domnilor din Țara Românească și Moldova a. 1324 - 1881, Volumul I |last=Rezachevici |first=Constantin |publisher=Editura Enciclopedică |year=2001}}</ref> Basarab's reign lasts only a month and he is removed on February 5.  
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Empress Zhang (Jiajing)|Zhang Qijie]] becomes the most powerful woman in [[Ming dynasty]] [[China]] as the primary wife of the [[Jiajing Emperor]], shortly after the death of the [[Empress Chen (Jiajing)|Empress Xiaojiesu]].<ref>"Zhang Qijie", in ''Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644'', ed. by L. Carrington Goodrich and Fang Chaoying (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976) p. 1751 {{ISBN|0-231-03801-1}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; In [[India]], the Mughal Emperor [[Babur]] departs from the capital at [[Agra]] toward [[Ghazipur]] to fight the Rajputs and the rebel Afghans who had captured the city.
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Peter Vannes]], the Italian-born envoy for England's King [[Henry VIII]], arrives in [[Rome]] on a mission to get [[Pope Clement VII]] to give a dispensation for King Henry to divorce one wife and marry another, with both marriages to be declared valid. The mission fails. 
* [[February 2]] &ndash; The [[Örebro Synod]] provides the theological foundation of the Swedish Reformation, following the economic foundation of it, after the [[Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden]].<ref>[https://runeberg.org/svkyrhis/1/0049.html Carl Alfred Cornelius: ''Svenska kyrkans historia efter reformationen'', förra delen (1520-1693), 1886-87]</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash;  The [[Battle of Shimbra Kure]] is fought in Ethiopia as the [[Imam]] [[Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi]], with 12,000 men, including special forces armed with [[matchlock]] firearms, defeats the 200,000 man army of the [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] [[Dawit II]].<ref>Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, ''Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia'', translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003) p.86</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; A [[blood libel]] is carried out against the Jewish community of [[Pezinok|Bosen]] in Hungary (now Pezinok in [[Slovakia]]), on the first day of Passover, after a boy in the town disappears. Three Jews are accused and killed. The boy is later discovered alive, having been kidnapped for the benefit of the scheme.