1537

Categories: 1537

Years: 1534 1535 1536 - 1537 - 1538 1539 1540
Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

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 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)af:1537

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