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On 23 April 1521, royalist forces crushed the Comuneros on a muddy field at Villalar. The revolt had almost ended the Spanish reign of Charles V before it properly began - a teenage Habsburg who spoke no Castilian, travelled with a Flemish court, and treated Spain as a bank to finance his Imperial ambitions elsewhere.
On 19 April 1529, the Diet of Speyer voted to ban Lutheranism and reinstate the Edict of Worms. Six princes and fourteen cities filed a legal protest. That document coined the word 'Protestant.' Ten years later to the day, Charles V made peace with them. He never managed more than that.
On 24 February 1525, Charles V turned twenty-five. His birthday present was the Battle of Pavia, a captured French king, and confirmation that his was the most powerful empire Europe had seen since Rome.