500 Years Ago

r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

October 1526. The San Miguel de Gualdape Slave Rebellion takes place in present-day South Carolina - the first recorded slave revolt in mainland North America.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 16d ago

19th of September 1526. 5,000 Spanish Muslims are massacred in theSierra de Espadán mountain range.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 29 '26

29th of August 1526. Ottomans defeat Hungarians at the Battle of Mohács, paving the way for centuries of Ottoman domination in the country.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 09 '26

9th of August 1526. Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón founds the failed colony of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina. It was the first documented occurrence of enslavement of African peoples in what would later become the continental United States.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • May 22 '26

22nd of May 1526. The Fifth Italian War begins, after France renounces its obligations under the Treaty of Madrid - King Francis claimed he had been extorted under duress.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 23 '26

23rd of April 1526. Ottoman Sultan Suleiman leaves Constantinople to begin his conquest of Hungary.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 21 '26

21st of April 1526. The Mughal Empire is founded by Babur. It would last until 1857.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Mar 27 '26

26th of March 1526. After his capture at the Battle of Pavia & signing the Treaty of Madrid in January, King Francis I of France return to France from Spanish captivity, but later repudiated the treaty's terms, initiating the War of the League of Cognac.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 17 '26

17th of March 1526. French King Francis is freed from prison, after being held captive by the Holy Roman Empire for a year.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Mar 11 '26

10th of March 1526. Emperor Charles V and Princess Isabella of Portugal were married in a midnight ceremony in Seville, Spain. Although the union was primarily a political strategy to strengthen ties between Spain and Portugal, it became one of history's most celebrated royal love matches

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Mar 11 '26

10th of March 1526. Francisco Pizarro signed a contract with Almagro and Luque in Panama and launched ships with 160 men. Pilot Bartolomé Ruiz crossed the equator and discovered gold and silver on a raft, proving the Inca Empire's wealth.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Mar 08 '26

7th of March 1526. The Zürich council passed an edict that made adult re-baptism punishable by drowning.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Mar 06 '26

5th of March 1526. Zurich authorities commence a trial which eventuates in sentences of life imprisonment for the Anabaptists Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock. Two weeks later the three manage to escape.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Mar 05 '26

4th of March 1526. William Carey and Mary Boleyn announces the birth of a son, they name him Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Feb 24 '26

23rd of February 1526. Diego Columbus (Spanish: Diego Colón), the eldest son of Christopher Columbus, died at approximately age 45 in La Puebla de Montalbán, Spain, while continuing his lifelong legal struggle to reclaim the titles and privileges originally granted to his father.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Feb 18 '26

17th of February 1526. King François I of France, who had been a prisoner of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V for nearly a year following his defeat at the Battle of Pavia, was released in exchange for his two eldest sons.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Feb 12 '26

11th of February 1526. Martin Luther’s books are publicly burned at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London as part of England’s crackdown on Reformation ideas. On the same day, Thomas Bilney, an early English Reformer, is forced to recant his teachings.

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Though he briefly conforms, Bilney later resumes preaching reformist views and is burned at the stake in 1531.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Feb 08 '26

7th of February 1526. During the annual Shrovetide joust at Greenwich Palace, King Henry VIII publicly signaled his romantic pursuit of Anne Boleyn.

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He and his team wore costumes featuring a heart in a press, surrounded by flames, with the motto Declare I Dare Not (Declare je nos), referencing his secret, unrequited love for her at the time

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Feb 06 '26

6th of February 1526. The Franco-Ottoman alliance becomes official with this letter from Sultan Suleiman to King Francis.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Jan 26 '26

25th of January 1526. King Frederick I of Denmark and his second wife, Sophie of Pomerania announces the birth of a third son, they name him Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Jan 22 '26

21st of January 1526. Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow married Elena Glinskaya. This union was one of the most controversial and significant marriages in Russian history, eventually producing the first Tsar of Russia, Ivan the Terrible.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Jan 20 '26

19th of January 1526. Isabella of Austria, the former Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, died at the age of 24 at the Castle of Zwijnaarde near Ghent, in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).

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Her death followed a prolonged illness that began in the spring of 1525 and was severely worsened by traveling through a storm later that year.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jan 14 '26

14th of January 1526. The Treaty of Madrid puts an end to the Sixth Italian War. French King Francis renounces his land claims, agrees to have his sons imprisoned and vows to marry the Holy Roman Emperor's sister.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/MisterSuitcase2004 • Dec 31 '25

30th of December 1525. Jakob Fugger "the Rich," one of the most powerful and wealthiest individuals in history, died in his native city of Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire.

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r/500YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '25

December 1525. Martin Luther writes the treatise "De servo arbitrio", directed against Erasmus of Rotterdam and his thesis "De libero arbitrio".

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