1532

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Year 1532 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1532

January - June

May 13 - Francisco Pizarro lands on the northern coast of Peru.
May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.

July - December

September 1 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England.
November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.

Undated

Civil war begins in the Inca Empire.
Atahualpa wins the Inca civil war over Huáscar.
The Prince is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavelli.
Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais.
Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.

Births

February 19 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the Pléiade (d. 1589)
7 June - Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1560)
June 24

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1588)
William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German Protestant leader (d. 1592)

December 26 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
date unknown

Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (d. 1613)
William Cardinal Allen, English cardinal (d. 1594)
Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (d. 1585)
Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (d. 1597)
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (d. 1602)
John Hawkins, English navigator (d. 1595)
Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (d. 1573)
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1585)
Thomas Norton, English lawyer (d. 1584)
Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (d. 1588)
Tulsidas, medieval Hindi poet and philosopher (d. 1623)
Flavio Orsini, Italian cardinal (d. 1581)

probable

Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian portrait painter (d. 1625)
Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (d. 1575)

Deaths

January 31 - Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (b. 1460)
May - Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex
August 16 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
August 22 - William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1450)
September - Vlad Înecatul, Prince of Wallachia
October 1 - Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter
December 11 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
December 30 - Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish noble (b. 1467)
date unknown

Andrea Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1470)
Huáscar, 12^th Inca Emperor
Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (b. 1482)

See also :Category: 1532 deaths.

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