Editing 1530 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 5]] –  Strasbourg joins the ''Christliches [[Burgrecht]]'', the Protestant alliance of Swiss cities.<ref>{{Citation |last = Greschat |first =Martin |title =Martin Bucer: A Reformer and His Times  |publisher = Westminster John Knox Press |year =2004 |place = Louisville, [[Kentucky|KY]] |page=116 |isbn = 0-664-22690-6}}. Translated from {{Citation | language = de | title = Martin Bucer: Ein Reformator und seine Zeit | publisher = CH Beck | place = Munich }}</ref>
* [[January 20]] – Sent on a mission to penetrate the interior of Mexico and to conquer the Kingdom of Michoacán, the Spanish conquistador [[Hernán Cortés]] leads a group of soldiers across the [[Lerma river]] through [[Cuitzeo]] and proceeds northwest.<ref name = "facts">{{cite web | author = Manuel Salas Mercado – El Cronista Municipal El Salto | title = El Salto and its History (Historical Facts) | url = http://www.paginasprodigy.com/iee_elsalto/Hechos.pdf | access-date = 24 February 2013 | archive-date = 28 March 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140328041643/http://www.paginasprodigy.com/iee_elsalto/Hechos.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> The arrive at Tonalá on March 24 and then take possession of the regions south of the Santiago River and north and west of Lake Chapala.  
* [[January 21]] – [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], issues letters from his winter residence in [[Bologna]], inviting members of the [[Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)|Imperial Diet]] to convene at [[Augsburg]] on [[April 8]] to discuss various theological questions.<ref name=Reu>[[Johann Michael Reu]], ''The Augsburg Confession: A Collection of Sources with an Historical Introduction'' (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1983) p.28</ref> 
* [[February 14]] – [[Tangaxuan II]], last [[cazonci]] of the [[Purépecha Empire]], is executed by conquistador [[Nuño de Guzmán]], ending the Purépecha Empire's independence from [[Spain]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sánchez Sandoval |first1=Fidel |title=Michoacán : historia y geografía, tercer grado |date=2002 |publisher=Secretaría de Educación Pública |isbn=978-970-18-7681-7 |page=95 |url=https://archive.org/details/michoacnhistor00sn/page/94/mode/2up?q=1530 |access-date=7 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Alvarez |first1=María Jesús Torrens |title=Evolución e historia de la lengua española |date=2007 |publisher=Arco Libros |isbn=978-84-7635-712-5 |page=282 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4gdAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Nu%C3%B1o%20de%20Guzm%C3%A1n%20el%2014%22 |access-date=7 August 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] is crowned emperor in [[Bologna]], by [[Pope Clement VII]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Finlay |first1=Robert |title=Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti, the War of Cambrai, and the Rise of Habsburg Hegemony, 1509-1530* |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |date=December 2000 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=988–1031 |doi=10.2307/2901454 |jstor=2901454 |s2cid=155791278 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/fabius-maximus-in-venice-doge-andrea-gritti-the-war-of-cambrai-and-the-rise-of-habsburg-hegemony-15091530/9EE9123E1BE906CE18BE99E5C2BA2D56 |access-date=7 August 2023 |language=en |issn=0034-4338}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – The [[Tribute of the Maltese Falcon]], an agreement by the [[List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller|Grand Master]] of the [[Knights Hospitaller|Order of St John of Jerusalem]] to pay an annual [[tribute]] to the [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], King of Sicily, in return for an order granting the Knights full rulership of [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] and the islands of [[Malta (island)|Malta]] and [[Gozo]], is reached.<ref name="odonnel">{{cite news|url=http://www.orderofmalta.int/wp-content/uploads/archive/pubblicazioni/La_cesion_de_Malta.pdf|title=La cesión de Malta a los Caballeros de San Juan a través de la cédula del 4 de marzo de 1530|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317185329/http://www.orderofmalta.int/wp-content/uploads/archive/pubblicazioni/La_cesion_de_Malta.pdf|archive-date=17 March 2020}}</ref> The transfer of ownership takes place on [[October 26]], 1550, although [[Siege of Tripoli (1551)|Tripoli is conquered by the Ottomans]] on August 15, 1551.