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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
Jan 21 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. 
Feb 03 Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer.
Feb 20 Swiss and German mercenaries desert Francois I's army.
Feb 24 Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king
Feb 24 Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier.
Feb 28 Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
Mar 20 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
Apr 03 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49
May 05 Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62
May 10 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague.
May 12 Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers
May 15 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5000; ends Boer war
May 17 Battle at Zabern duke of Lutherans beats rebels.
May 17 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels.
May 27 Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
Jun 09 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch.
Jun 13 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns
Jul 11 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague.
Jul 19 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau.
Jul 22 Richard Wingfield, English diplomat.
Sep 07 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague.
Sep 11 Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91).
Sep 15 John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
Sep 25 Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
Oct 20 Joannes Custos, S Neth humanist, dies at about 50
Dec 30 Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
