1532 - Political Events

Political Events

The Ottoman forces of Suleiman I invade Hungary but Carinthia and Croatia repel the attackers.

Brittany's Duchess Anne signs the Treaty of Plessis-Mace with France's François I who adds the duchy to his realm (final absorption of Brittany into France will come in 1547).

Inca armies engage in battle early in the year outside Cuzco. Atahualpa triumphs over his older half brother Huascár, his generals take Huascár prisoner, and Huascár is put to death along with his family by order of Atahualpa, who rests at the hot springs of Cajamarca while preparing to enter Cuzco and become the Inca himself (see 1530). Francisco Pizarro has ascended the Andes and enters Cuzco with 168 soldiers and a dozen others. He invites Atahualpa to attend a feast in his honor November 15. Atahualpa arrives November 16 with as many as 80,000 soldiers plus unarmed retainers. He rejects demands by the friar Vicente de Valverde that he accept the Christian faith and the sovereignty of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whereupon Pizarro has his conquistadors fire their guns and cannons, charge the natives with their horses, and kill at least 7,000. Pizarro himself seizes the Inca Atahualpa, who offers to fill a large room with gold if his captors will release him. Pizarro holds Atahualpa for ransom, paralyzing the machinery of Inca government as vast quantities of gold and silver art objects, jewelry, and statues come in from all over the empire to fill a room 22 feet long, 17 wide, and about eight high (but see 1533).