War of the League of Cognac 1526–1530

Belligerents: Republic of Venice, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of France, Republic of Florence, Duchy of Milan, Papal States, Republic of Genoa, Kingdom of England

Key battles

• Sack of Rome, 1527 (1527)
• Siege of Florence (1529)

Who lived through the War of the League of Cognac

Well-known people alive during 1526–1530:

• Michelangelo (1475–1564) — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
• Martin Luther (1483–1546) — German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) — Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
• Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) — German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
• Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) — Spanish conquistador
• Jacques Cartier (1492–1557) — Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
• Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566) — the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
• Erasmus (1466–1536) — Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)
• Mimar Sinan (1490–1588) — 16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
• John Calvin (1509–1564) — French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)
• François Rabelais (1494–1553) — 16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
• Thomas More (1478–1535) — English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
• Charles V (1500–1558) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)
• Nostradamus (1503–1566) — French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) — King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594) — Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)
• Luís de Camões (1524–1580) — 16th-century Portuguese poet
• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598) — King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598
• Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) — Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)
• Babur (1483–1531) — founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
• Titian (1490–1576) — Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
• Guru Nanak (1469–1539) — First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
• Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) — Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
• Paracelsus (1493–1541) — Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
• Anne Boleyn (1501–1536) — second wife of Henry VIII of England (died 1536)

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