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1530| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 1530 | Germany, Holy Roman Empire [dentistry] | A manual of dentistry is published at Leipzig, Germany – the first methodical approach to the subject. | | 1530 | Spain [other structures] | The façade of the University of Salamanca, Spain, is completed. It is one of the finest examples of the Plateresque style, the decoration rich and finely worked. | | 25 June 1530 | Holy Roman Empire [political events] | At the Diet (legislative assembly) of Augsburg, Philip Melanchthon, who pleads the Protestant case while the German church reformer Martin Luther is under the Imperial Ban, presents the ‘Confession of Augsburg’ (a statement of the Protestant faith), agreed by seven princes and two imperial cities, to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. The conciliatory tone and content of this statement enrages the Zwinglians and annoys Luther. | | 25 August 1530 | Russia [births and deaths] | Ivan IV (‘Ivan the Terrible’), Grand Prince of Moscow (1533–84), Tsar of Russia (1547–84), who waged war with Sweden and Livonia, and who is noted for executing at least 3,000 noblemen and boyars, born in Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia (–1584). | | 29 November 1530 | England [births and deaths] | Thomas Wolsey (Cardinal Wolsey), English statesman who dominated King Henry VIII's government (1515–29), dies of a bowel disorder in Leicester, England, while under arrest as a traitor for his secret correspondence with Pope Clement VII (55). | | 26 December 1530 | India, Mogul Empire [births and deaths] | Babur (original name Zahir-ud-Din Mohammad), emperor of India 1526–30, founder of the Mogul dynasty, descendant of Genghis Khan and of Timur Leng (Tamerlane), dies in Agra, India (47). |
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