Births on November 7

Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (d. 1575)

Georg Cracow, Kraków, Cracov, Cracau or Cracovius (7 November 1525, Stettin – 17 March 1575, Leipzig) was a German lawyer and statesman.

21 Jan

Anabaptist
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded 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.
24 Feb

Battle of Pavia
A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
15 May

Battle of Frankenhausen
Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.