1532
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 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, 12th Inca Emperor
- Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (b. 1482)
- See also :Category: 1532 deaths.
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