1524. October, Francis I. 1524. Great plague at Milan, passes Mont Cenis, and is 1527. Inundations in Upper 1525. beaten at Pavia and captured. Italy. 1526. 14th January. Peace of 1527. 11th August, a comet. Madrid. 1527. Plague in the imperial 1526. Clement VII. (1523–1534) army in Italy, after the sacking becomes the head of of Rome; and in Wittenberg. the Holy League against the 1528–1534. Years of famine, Emperor. with a prevalence of moisture 1527. 6th May. Rome is vanquished and heat. by the imperial army 1528. Repeated inundations. and sacked. Continual south winds and 1528. A French army, under summer fogs in Italy. Second Lautrec, conquers the greatest great epidemic petechial part of Italy, and fever there. commences 1528. Destruction of the French 1528. 1st May, the siege of army before Naples by a Naples. Lautrec dies in pestilential Spotted Fever. August. 1528. Cold spring and moist 1528. 29th August, the siege of summer in France. Naples is raised. The remains 1528–1532. Warm winters, moist of the French army summers. Repeated failures are made prisoners. of harvest, and great famines 1528. Charles V. challenges in that country. Francis I. to single combat. 1528. The Trousse-galant carries 1529. 5th August, Francis I. off a fourth part of the concludes the unfavourable inhabitants of France in this peace of Cambray. Termination and the following years. of the French dominion 1528. Wet and mild winter. in Italy. The Reformation Moist summer with fogs. in England is Failure in crops, and famine retarded. in England. 1527. Scruples of Henry VIII. 1528. _At the end of May: outbreak_ respecting his marriage with _in London of the Fourth_ Catherine of Arragon. Various _epidemic Sweating Sickness._ negotiations on the subject _It spreads with great_ in the following years. _malignity, and with much_ Cardinal Wolsey falls into _disturbance of social life,_ disgrace. Thomas More becomes _all over England; carries off_ chancellor. _many distinguished persons,_ 1528. Henry VIII. retires to _and terminates in the winter._ Tytynhangar in consequence _This year it remains confined_ of the Sweating Sickness. _to England, and does_ 1532. Separation of the king _not return in the following_ from Catherine. Mary is excluded _year._ from the government. 1528. Continual south-east 1533. January, Anna Boleyn winds. Great drought. becomes queen. The Reformation Swarms of locusts and fiery is introduced. meteors in the north of 1535. Thomas More and Fisher Germany. are executed. 1529. Earthquake in Upper 1536. Anna Boleyn is executed. Italy. Sanguineous rain at Jane Seymour becomes Cremona. A comet in July queen. Dies 1537. and August. 1537. Anne of Cleves becomes 1529. Mild winter in Germany. queen. Separation after six The spring begins in February. months. Great moisture 1541. Catherine Howard, queen, throughout the summer. General and executed one year and dearth in March. Disease six months afterwards. among the porpoises in 1544. Catherine, queen. the Baltic. Unwholesomeness 1547. 13th December, Henry of the river fish in the VIII. dies. north of Germany. Disease 1521. Plots of the Iconoclasts among birds. Languor resembling in Zwickau and Wittenberg. syncope in Pomerania. 1523–1525. Peasant war. On Frequent suicides the 15th May, battle of in the March. In the middle Frankenhausen. of June a flood of rain 1529. Imperial Diet at Spires. lasting four days (torrent of 1529. 22d September-16th St. Vitus) in the south of October, the Turks before Germany. On the 10th of Vienna. August, a universal tempest. 1529. 2d October, assemblage 24th of August, and the of the Reformers in following days great heat. Marburg. 1529. _25th July, outbreak of_ 1530. 25th June, surrender of _the epidemic Sweating Sickness_ the Augsburg confession. Severe _in Hamburgh. Termination_ decrees against the _on the 5th August._ Protestants. _On the 29th July in Lübeck._ 1531. League of the Protestant _On the 14th August_ princes at Schmalkalden. _in Zwickau. About the_ Continued danger from the _1st September the English_ Turks. _Sweating Sickness appears_ 1532. Imperial Diet at Nuremberg. _to spread universally all over_ The Protestants obtain _Germany. On the 31st August_ security. _in Stettin; termination_ 1333–1535. Excesses of the _on the 8th September. On_ Anabaptists at Münster. _the 1st September in Dantzic;_ 1536. The Schmalkaldic league _termination on the 6th_ is strengthened. _September. On the 24th_ 1538. The Catholic States establish _August in Strasburg. On_ the sacred league at _the 5th, 6th and 7th September_ Nuremberg. _in Cologne, Augsburg_ 1540. Paul III. (1534–1550) _and Francfort on the Maine._ confirms the order of the Jesuits, _About the 20th September_ founded in 1534 by Ignatius _in Vienna and among the_ Loyola.