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Year 1526 ( MDXXVI ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
When, on 29 August 1526, the forces of Suleiman the Magnificent smashed the Hungarians at Mohacs and shortly afterwards sacked their capital at Buda, rule over the defeated country was disputed by the Sultan's vassal John Zapolya and Charles V's brother Ferdinand.
Marcus Antonius Muretus was born on April 12, 1256, AD in Muret, a village near Limoges