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Events
- January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated
- August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.
- Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls who must not be enslaved or robbed.
- Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru
- Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
- The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe
- Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran protestantism in Denmark and Norway
- Dissolution of religious buildings by Henry VIII, including
- *Bisham Priory,
- *Bridlington Priory,
- *Castle Acre Priory, and
- *Valle Crucis Abbey
- Bisham Abbey founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory
Births
- June 28 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (died 1595)
- July 20 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
- October 12 - King Edward VI of England (died 1553)
- October 12 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (died 1554)
- December 5 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (died 1597)
- December 23 - King John III of Sweden (died 1592)
- Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish military leader (died 1583)
- Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China
- Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (died 1619)
- Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (died 1582)
- Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (died 1567)
- Saint John Almond
Deaths
- January 6 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (born 1510)
- January 6 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
- February 8 - Otto von Pack, German conspirator
- July 7 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1520)
- September 4 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian
- October 24 - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth)
- Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (born 1459)
- Jerome Emiliani, Italian humanitarian and saint (born 1481)
- Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (born 1513)
- John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
- Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (born 1487)
- Thomas Murner, German satirist (born 1475)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (born 1502)
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