Estamos en 1526

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12 de enero: España concede la primera licencia para introducir esclavos africanos a la isla de Cubagua (Venezuela), para ser utilizados como mano de obra en la explotación de los yacimientos de perlas de dicha ínsula.
14 de enero: Tratado de Madrid, entre Francisco I de Francia y Carlos I de España.
15 de enero: Sale de La Coruña una expedición marítima al mando de Diego García de Moguer.
11 de marzo: En una sala del Real Alcázar de Sevilla se casaron el emperador Carlos V e Isabel de Portugal, en una ceremonia oficiada por el cardenal Salviati, legado del papa, Clemente VII.
3 de abril: Sebastián Caboto sale de Sanlúcar de Barrameda para el Río de la Plata.
13 de junio: en la plaza de mercado Długi Targ en la ciudad de Gdansk (Reino de Polonia), el rey Segismundo I el Viejo hace decapitar a 14 líderes luteranos ―encabezados por Jerzym Wendland― del Tumulto de Gdansk.
21 de junio: en la Ciudad de México, ante las múltiples quejas de invasión de propiedades, Hernán Cortés decide sustituir alcaldes y regidores en el Valle de México.[1]​
29 de agosto: Batalla de Mohács: Hungría es conquistada por el Imperio otomano. Sería dividida en tres partes: una turca, una germánica controlada por los Habsburgo y el Principado de Transilvania, hasta 1686, cuando sería unificada de nuevo.
21 de septiembre: en la costa pacífica del Ecuador, el español Bartolomé Ruiz y sus hombres fundan San Mateo de las Esmeraldas (actual Esmeraldas).
El pintor italiano Tiziano pinta el Retablo o la Pala de Pesaro.
En Nueva Delhi, el emperador mogol Babur funda la dinastía de los mogoles, que gobernó la India.
El papa Clemente VII crea la Liga de Cognac.
Se traduce por primera vez el Nuevo Testamento al idioma sueco.

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Clément Janequin (c. 1485 in Châtellerault, Vienne -- 1558 in Paris) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers of popular chansons of the entire Renaissance, and along with Claudin de Sermisy, was hugely influential in the development of the Parisian chanson, especially the programmatic type. The wide spread of his fame was made possible by the concurrent development of music printing.

Janequin's career was highly unusual for his time, in that he never had a regular position with a cathedral or an aristocratic court. Instead he held a series of minor positions, often with important patronage. He was born in Châtellerault, near Poitiers, though no documents survive which establish any details of his early life or training. In 1505 he was employed as a clerk in Bordeaux, to Lancelot du Fau, who eventually became Bishop of Luçon; he retained this position until du Fau's death in 1523, at which time he took a position with the Bishop of Bordeaux. Around this time he became a priest, though his appointments were rarely lucrative; indeed he always complained about money.

After 1530 Janequin held a succession of posts in Anjou, beginning with singing teacher to the choirboys at the cathedral at Auch, and progressing to maître de chapelle at the singing school at Angers Cathedral. Around this time he attracted the attention of Jean de Guise, the patron of Erasmus, Clement Marot, and Rabelais; it was a welcome career boost, and, in 1548, with the additional assistance of Charles de Ronsard (the brother of poet Pierre de Ronsard), he became curate at Unverre, not far from Chartres. During this time he lived in Paris. By 1555 he was listed as a "singer ordinary" of the king's chapel, and shortly thereafter became "composer ordinary" to the king: only one composer (Sandrin, also known as Pierre Regnault) had previously had this title. In his will, dated January 1558, he left a small estate to charity, and he complained again of age and poverty in a dedication to a work published posthumously in 1559. He died in Paris.
Few composers of the Renaissance were more popular in their lifetimes than Janequin. His chansons were well-loved and widely sung. The Paris printer Pierre Attaingnant printed five volumes with his chansons. La bataille, which vividly depicts the sounds and activity of a battle, is a perennial favorite of a cappella singing groups even in the present day.

Janequin wrote very little liturgical music: only two masses and a single motet are attributed to him, though more may have been lost. His 250 secular chansons and his 150 psalm settings and chansons spirituelles — the French equivalent of the Italian madrigale spirituale — were his primary legacy.

The programmatic chansons for which Janequin is famous were long, sectional pieces, and usually cleverly imitated natural or man-made sounds. Le chant des oiseaux imitates bird-calls; La chasse the sounds of a hunt; and La bataille, probably the most famous, and almost certainly written to celebrate the French victory over the Habsburgs at the Battle of Marignano in 1515, imitates battle noises, including trumpet calls, cannon fire and the cries of the wounded. Onomatopoeic effects such as these became a commonplace in later 16th century music, and carried over into the Baroque era; indeed "battle music" was to become a cliché, but it first came into prominence with Janequin.
In addition to the programmatic chansons for which he is most famous, he also wrote short and refined compositions more in the style of Sermisy. For these he set texts by some of the prominent poets of the time, including Clément Marot. Late in his life he wrote many simple sacred chansons which used traditional Calvinist tunes. While there is no documentary evidence of Janequin's being a Protestant, his use of Marot's poetry, Calvinist tunes, and the extraordinary simplicity of the music (especially in contrast to the complex polyphonic and programmatic style he cultivated earlier in life) are suggestive at the least.