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unusual facts about Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528



1586 in poetry

Birbal, real name: Maheshdas Bhat (born 1528), Indian poet, wit and Grand Vizier of the Mughal court of Emperor Akbar

Adam Reusner

From 1526 to 1528, he was the private secretary of the captain Georg von Frundsberg to the German mercenaries in Italy.

Agostino Falivene

Agostino Falivene born from Giffoni in the province of Salerno, of the Order of the Servants of Maria, was Roman Catholic bishop of the island of Capri from the 25 September 1528 to the 24 April 1534 in that Pope Paul III transfers it to the island of Ischia where he died in 1548.

Alessio Tramello

The first, Basilica of Santa Maria di Campagna was built (1522–1528) and is considered to be a prime example of Renaissance architecture.

Andrés de la Tovilla

He, along with Diego de Mazariegos, founded the City of “Villareal de Chiapa de los Españoles”, now San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1528 as a regional base for the conquest of Guatemala.

Bartholomeus V. Welser

In virtue of his contract, Welser armed a fleet, which sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda early in 1528, under the command of Ambrosius Ehinger, whom he appointed captain general.

Battle of Landriano

In 1528 the Genoese Admiral, Andrea Doria, after deserting in favour of Charles, managed to break up the French siege of Naples; his efforts were helped by the plague, which decimated the French besiegers, among them General Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec, who died on 15 August.

Black Bands

It retreated from the siege with the remainder of the French army—crippled by the plague—and surrendered to the Imperial forces in late 1528, disbanding shortly afterwards.

Bosanska Krajina

In January 1528, the Ottomans under Gazi Husrev-beg took command of Jajce, Banja Luka and Ključ, followed by Krbava and Lika in the spring of that year.

Bourtreehill House

2 May 1528 - John Lyn of Bowrtrehill witnessed an instrument in Glasgow concerning the Montgomerys.

Church of the Holy Ghost, Bern

In 1528 the church was secularized by the reformers and the last two monks at the Abbey were driven out of Bern.

Claude of Lorraine

Claude, Duke of Guise (1496–1550), called "Claude of Lorraine" prior to his creation as Duke of Guise in 1528

Conchoid of Dürer

It was first described by the German painter and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) in his book Underweysung der Messung (S. 38), calling it Ein muschellini.

Dutch Mission

George Edmundson wrote, in History of Holland, that Henry, "was compelled" in 1528 to formally surrender "the temporalities of the see" to Charles V.

Edward Foxe

In 1528 he was sent with Bishop Stephen Gardiner to Rome to obtain from Pope Clement VII a decretal commission for the trial and decision of the case between King Henry VIII of England and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Elizabeth Russell

Elizabeth Hoby (1528–1609), (née Cooke and later Lady Elizabeth Russell in her second marriage), associate of Elizabeth I of England

Ferry Carondelet

Ferry Carondelet (also Ferricus Carondelet) (1473 – June 27, 1528) was a Habsburg diplomat, advisor to Margaret of Austria and abbot at Montbenoît.

Francisco Delicado

After the sack of Rome, he went to Venice where he wrote his novel Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman (El retrato de la Loçana Andaluza, 1528), that continues on the lines of the novel in dialogue exemplified by Celestina.

Hugo of Moncada

Hugo de Moncada a.k.a. Ugo de Moncada, (Chiva, Valencia, circa 1476 - Gulf of Salerno, May 28, 1528), was a Spanish political and military leader of the late 15th and early 16th century.

Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War

Jajce fell in 1528, Požega in 1536, Klis fell in 1537, Nadin and Vrana in 1538, moving the Croatian-Ottoman border to the line, roughly, Požega-Bihać-Velebit-Zrmanja-Cetina.

James Basset

When James was two years old in 1528 his father died and shortly thereafter his mother re-married to Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV, half-brother of Queen Elizabeth of York, and uncle of King Henry VIII, who was appointed by the latter Lord Deputy of Calais (1533-40).

Johnnie Armstrong

He burnt Netherby in Cumberland in 1527, in return for which William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre burnt him out at Canonbie in 1528; and Gavin Dunbar, the Archbishop of Glasgow as well as Chancellor of Scotland, intervened with an excommunication for Armstrong, whose activities made the central authority look weak and were a hindrance to diplomacy with England.

Juan de Valdés

Juan, who probably studied at the University of Alcalá, first appears as the anonymous author of a politico-religious Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón, written and published about 1528.

Juliana of Stolberg

# Reinhard (born: 8 April 1528; died: 11 October 1554), halfbrother of William of Orange, he died in battle in service of the army of Charles V in the war against France.

Libro d'Oro

In the reformed Republic of Genoa of 1576 the Genoese Libro d'Oro, which had been closed in 1528, was reopened to admit new blood.

Lothar von Metternich

Lothar von Metternich was born in Schloss Vettelhoven in Grafschaft on August 31, 1551, the son of Johann von Metternich (1500-1562), Lord of Vettelhoven and bailiff of Saffenberg, and his fourth wife, Katharina von der Leyen zu Adendorf (1528-1567).

Ludwig Haetzer

Born in Bischofszell, Thurgau, Switzerland, he wrote an article against the uses of images in worship, translated some Latin evangelical texts regarding the conversion of Jews, together with Hans Denck he translated the prophets of the Bible into German (1528) and wrote a booklet discouraging the consumption of alcohol.

Lyon Tablet

The surviving bottom portion of the tablet was discovered in 1528 by a draper in his vineyard on Croix Rousse Hill (on the site of the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls), in Lyon, France.

Mihály Imreffy

During the Hungarian Civil War (1526–1538) he joined to the league of Ferdinand I who appointed him castellan of Buda, together with Tamás Nádasdy.

Münchenbuchsee Commandery

At the start of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland in 1528, Commander Peter Englisberg, who headed both houses, supported the secularization of the two commanderies, for which he received Bremgarten Castle as a reward.

Nicolas de Thou

Nicolas de Thou (1528 – November 5, 1598) was an eminent French cleric, Bishop of Chartres, and in politics a figure instrumental in the coronation of Henry IV of France, the first monarch of the Bourbon dynasty in France.

Ottaviano Fregoso

Contemporary historians and intellectuals remembered Ottaviano as a liberal and magnanimous prince, holding him up as a quintessential Renaissance gentleman and a pattern for rulers, as did Baldassare Castiglione who made him one of the interlocutors in The Book of the Courtier (1528).

Otto von Pack

In 1528 he revealed to Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, the details of a scheme agreed upon in Breslau by the archduke Ferdinand, afterwards the emperor Ferdinand I, and other influential princes, to conquer Hungary for Ferdinand and then to attack the reformers in Germany.

Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano

Other rooms contain a Maestà from the late thirteenth century, altar decorations by Memmo di Filippuccio, a "Madonna and Child" by Vincenzo Tamagni (1528), several Gothic altarpieces (including one showing scenes from the life of Saint Gimignano), a "Madonna with Saints Gregory and Benedict" by Pinturicchio, and two medieval crucifixes of the Florentine school.

Palma Vecchio

Palma il Vecchio (c. 1480 – July 1528), born Jacopo Palma or known as Jacopo Negretti, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school born at Serina Alta near Bergamo.

Považský hrad

Possession of Podmanitzky, with a hard centre Považský hrad withstood attacks of king's army led by Katzainer, to whom Trencin gave up in the summer of 1528, but they even gained new possessions around Lednica.

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

The definitive abandonment of Gothic architecture and the first "pure" Renaissance structures appear later in the 16th century, under King John III, like the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Tomar (1532–40), the Porta Especiosa of Coimbra Cathedral and the Graça Church at Évora (c. 1530-1540), as well as the cloisters of the Cathedral of Viseu (c. 1528-1534) and Convent of Christ in Tomar (John III Cloisters, 1557–1591).

Richard FitzLewis

Sir Richard FitzLewis or FitzLowys (by 1453-1528), of Bardwell, Suffolk and West Horndon, Essex, was an English politician.

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

Sebastian Newdigate

of John Newdigate (d. 15 August 1528), esquire, Sergeant-at-law in 1510 and King's Serjeant in 1520, and Amphyllis Neville (d.1544), daughter and heiress of John Neville of Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, 'a kinsman of the Earls of Westmorland'.

Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

# Barbara (24 September 1495, Ansbach–23 September 1552), married in Plassenburg 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg.

St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street

He lists a number of important Londoners who had been buried in the church, including Sir William Cantilo, knight and Mercer (died 1462) and several Lord Mayors of London: John Olney (Mayor in 1446, died 1475), Sir John Browne (mayor in 1480; d. 1497), Sir William Browne (Mayor in 1513, died during his term of office), Sir Thomas Exmewe (Mayor in 1517, d. 1528), and Thomas Skinner (Mayor in 1596).

Thomas Whythorne

Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595) was an English composer who wrote what some consider to be the earliest surviving autobiography in English.

Werner projection

Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.

William Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven

William Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven (died c. 1528) was a Scottish nobleman and founder of the noble lines of the Ruthven family.


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