Births on January 6

Caspar Peucer, German physician and scholar (d. 1602)

Caspar Peucer (pronounced , German: [ˈbɔɪkɐ]; June 1, 1525 – September 25, 1602) was a German reformer, physician, and scholar of Sorbian origin.

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.