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| Years: 1536 1537 1538 - 1539 - 1540 1541 1542 | |
| Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
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Events
- May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduced pigs into North America
- May - 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation
- September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
- September 7 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs
- Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.
- The town of Shuya was founded (official date)
- Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey and St Albans Abbey fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Births
- March 25 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1612)
- October 2 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
- November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (died 1596)
- December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (died 1604)
- Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (died 1590)
- Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)
- Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (died 1568)
- Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (died 1610)
- Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (died 1578)
- Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (died 1608)
Deaths
- February 6 - John III, Duke of Cleves (born 1491)
- February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
- March 12 - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)
- April 17 - George, Duke of Saxony (born 1471)
- May 7 - Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
- May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
- July 5 - St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (born 1502)
- September 8 - John Stokesley, English prelate (born 1475)
- December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
- James Beaton, Scottish church leader
- Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (born 1480)
- Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
- Symeon Iwanowicz Trubczewski, governor of Kostroma
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