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Post by Angel on Jun 30, 2007 20:53:43 GMT -5
1530 This stuff happened.
January - June
* June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire.
July - December
* August 3 - Battle of Gavinana. Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Orange. The Piagnon (followers of the memory of Girolamo Savonarola) are overthrown and the Medici are restored in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de Medici. * October 8 - A flood engulfs Rome * November 5 - St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
Undated
* Knights of Malta are formed when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Pope Clement VIII. * Ducal palace of Celle constructed. * Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition to patrol the Brazilian coast, banish the French, and create the first colonial towns: São Vicente and São Paulo. * Austrian forces capture Gran in Hungary, and raid as far as Buda.
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