Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage: Albert and his brothers receive the Duchy of Prussia as a fief from Polish King Sigismund I the Old, 1525.

The peninsula became part of the Duchy of Prussia when Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the 37th Grand Master, secularized the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in 1525.

In 1525 he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a position that entailed administrative and judicial control of much of northern England.

Since the 13th century the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights ( with Warmia ) was colonised mainly by Germans ( the Duchy of Prussia, Lutheran from 1525 onwards, gave refuge to Protestant Poles, Lithuanians, Scots, Salzburgers ).

Albert, Duke of Prussia | Albrecht Hohenzollern receives the Duchy of Prussia in fief from Poland's King Sigismund I the Old, 1525

Eastern Prussia, later called Duchy of Prussia remained with the Teutonic Order until 1525, as a Polish fief.

When Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1525 secularized the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, Insterburg became part of the Duchy of Prussia and was granted town privileges on October 10, 1583 by the Prussian regent Margrave George Frederick.

With the battle of Pavia ( 1525 ) the French are defeated by the imperial forces of Charles V, and Francesco Sforza II is returned to the Duchy of Milan.

From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, which became the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.

When the Prussian branch of the Order secularized in 1525 and became the Duchy of Prussia, the Livonian Order remained independent, although surrounded by aggressive neighbors.

The Duchy of Prussia or Ducal Prussia (; ; ; ; Old Prussian: Ercōgista Prūsija ) was a duchy in the eastern part of Prussia from 1525 – 1701.

Marienwerder became part of the Duchy of Prussia, a fief of Poland, upon its creation in 1525.

In 1525, by the Treaty of Krakow, the Duchy of Prussia was created through partial secularization of the State of the Teutonic Order.

The coronation was not accepted by the Teutonic Order, who despite the secularization of the Duchy of Prussia in 1525 upheld claims to the region.

In 1525 the Duchy of Prussia, a Polish fief until 1657, was founded from the secularized order's territory and became the first Protestant state ever existing.

* Duchy of Prussia, a duchy established in the eastern part of Prussia in 1525

Sensburg became part of the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.

With the secularization of the Teutonic Order's Prussian territories in 1525, Bartenstein became part of the Duchy of Prussia.

With its inclusion in the Duchy of Prussia in 1525, it lost its importance as a border fortress and began to decline.

As Deutsch Eylau, the town became part of the Duchy of Prussia in 1525 and the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.

The fishing village became part of the Duchy of Prussia in 1525 and the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701.

The populace became Lutheran-Protestant within the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.

Starting from 1525, he preferred to remain neutral in the wars which ensued between Francis I and Emperor Charles V. With the Treaty of Nuremberg ( 26 August 1542 ), he obtained by Charles V the independence of the Duchy of Lorraine

Kneiphof became part of the Duchy of Prussia after the Teutonic Order's Prussian branch was secularized in 1525.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

The Franconian-Kirschner branch was more successful: members of the Franconian branch became Margrave of Brandenburg in 1415 and Duke of Prussia in 1525.

John George of Brandenburg () ( 11 September 1525 – 8 January 1598 ) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg ( 1571 – 1598 ) and a Duke of Prussia.

* Teutonic Knights, established about 1190, and ruled the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia until 1525

The conversion of Albert of Prussia to Lutheranism in 1525 brought all of ducal Prussia and Masuria to Protestantism.

* January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia ( b. 1525 )

The Polish wars against the Teutonic Knights ended in 1525, when Albert, Duke of Prussia, their marshal ( and Sigismund's nephew ), converted to Lutheranism, secularized the order, and paid homage to Sigismund.

In 1525, the Order was ousted from East Prussian territory by its own Hochmeister when Albert, Duke of Prussia adopted Lutheranism and assumed the title of duke as hereditary ruler under the overlordship of Poland in the Prussian Homage.

Following the death of Hohenzollern Albert of Brandenburg Prussia, Duke of Prussia ( 1525 – 1568 ), Joachim II, the prince-elector Kurfürst of Brandenburg, became co-inheritor of Ducal Prussia.

The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in 1525.

" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.

The Spanish settled along the north coast of today's Colombia in the early 16th century, but their first permanent settlement, at Santa Marta, was not established until 1525.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

Cuauhtémoc ( also known as Cuauhtemotzin, Guatimozin or Guatemoc ; c. 1495 – 28 February 1525 ) was the Aztec ruler ( tlatoani ) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521.

According to Cortés himself, on 27 February 1525 it was revealed to him by a citizen of Tenochtitlan named Mexicalcingo that Cuauhtémoc, Coanacoch ( the ruler of Texcoco ) and Tetlepanquetzal ( the ruler of Tlacopan ) were plotting his death.

In response, Luther wrote his De servo arbitrio ( On the Bondage of the Will ) ( 1525 ), which attacks the " Diatribe " and Erasmus himself, going so far as to claim that Erasmus was not a Christian.

In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed.

For the following years with his family, till he left for studies in Paris in 1525, Francis ' life in the Kingdom of Navarre, then partially occupied by Spain, was surrounded by a war that lasted over 18 years, ending with the Kingdom of Navarre being partitioned into two territories, and the King of Navarre and some loyalists abandoning the south and moving to the northern part of the Kingdom of Navarre ( currently France ).

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

He was taken prisoner along with that monarch at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, and was released only on payment of a heavy ransom.

During the 16th century Italian Renaissance, the Questione della lingua was the discussion on the status and ideal form of the Italian language, initiated by Dante's de vulgari eloquentia ( Pietro Bembo, Prose della volgar lingua Venice 1525 ).

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594 ) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

In 1525, Cardano repeatedly applied to the College of Physicians in Milan, but was not admitted owing to his combative reputation and illegitimate birth.

However, both las Casas and Cortés sail back to Mexico before the end of 1525, where Francisco was arrested and sent back to Spain as a prisoner by Estrada and Alboronoz.

He was among those who met at Dessau in July 1525 and was a member of the league established at Halle in November 1533.

In 1525, he rejected Luther's idea of Real Presence and came to a spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Supper, which was subsequently rejected by Luther.

The first Hohenzollern claimant to descend from both Anna and her younger sister Elisabeth, was John George, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1525 – 98 ), his maternal grandmother having been Barbara Jagiellon.

Salai owned the Mona Lisa at the time of his death in 1525, and in his will it was assessed at 505 lire, an exceptionally high valuation for a small panel portrait.