1530
| Years: 1527 1528 1529 - 1530 - 1531 1532 1533 | |
| Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire.
- August 12 - Florence is captured by Spanish troops under Prince Philibert of Orange. The Medici are restored in the person of the Pope's nephew Alessandro de Medici.
- Knights of Malta are formed when the Knights Hospitaller are given Malta by Pope Clement VIII.
- Ducal palace of Celle constructed.
- Martin Afonso de Souza's expedition to patrol the Brazilian coast, banish the French, and create the first colonial towns: São Vicente and São Paulo.
- Austrian forces capture Gran in Hungary, and raid as far as Buda.
- Copernicus presents his sun-based system.
Births
- February 18 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1578)
- May 7 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French protestant general (died 1569)
- July 3 - Claude Fauchet, French historian and antiquary (died 1601)
- August 25 - Ivan IV of Russia (died 1584)
- November 1 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (died 1563)
- November 6 - Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (died 1576)
- Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (died 1589)
- Christopher Bathory, Prince of Transylvania (died 1581)
- Jean Bodin, French jurist (died 1596)
- Guillaume Costeley, French composer
- Pey de Garros, Provençal poet
- Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki, Polish bishop, political thinker and philosopher (died 1607)
- Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (died 1566)
- Moses Isserles, rabbi and Talmudist (died 1572)
- Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander during the Sengoku Period
- Koriki Kiyonaga, daimyo in Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo period (died 1608)
- Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (died 1584)
- Ralph Lane, English explorer (died 1603)
- Claude Le Jeune, French composer (died 1600)
- Joseph Boniface de La Molle, lover of Marguerite de Valois (died 1574)
- Gabriel Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (died 1574)
- François de Montmorency (died 1579)
- Israel ben Moses Najara, Jewish liturgical poet (died 1599)
- Jean Nicot, French diplomat and scholar (died 1606)
- Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman (died 1603)
- Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain and rebel (died 1567)
- Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chieftain of Tyrone (died 1595)
- Nicholas Sander, English Catholic propagandist (died 1581)
- Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest and chess analyst (died 1580)
- Josias Simmler, Swiss theologian and classicist (died 1576)
- Mordecai Yoffe, author of Levush Malkhut (died 1612)
Deaths
- April 27 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (born 1458)
- August 2 - Kano Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate (born 1434)
- November 29 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, British statesman
- December 1 - Margaret of Austria, Habsburg princess (born 1480)
- December 26 - Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire (born 1483)
- Joan, princess of Castile
- Francesco Ferruccio, Florentine captain (born 1489)
- Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (born 1465)
- Fernando Lopes, Protuguese prisoner and first permanent resident of Saint Helena
- Quentin Matsys, Flemish painter (born 1466)
- Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (born 1460)