1536
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1536 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1536
January - June
- February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- February 25 - Jacob Hutter burned at the stake for heresy.
- May 19 - Execution of Anne Boleyn.
- May 30 - Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour.
- May - Manco Inca Yupanqui leads a revolt against the Spanish and then leads his people to Machu Picchu deep in the Valcahambra range of Andes.
- April 30 - Inquisition is implemented in Portugal.
- June 24- Cristobal de Onate founds San Juan Bautista del Teul.
- June 27 - San Pedro Sula is founded by Pedro de Alvarado.
July - December
- October 13 - The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske.
- October 29 - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England.
Undated
- At the Battle of Un no Kuchi, Takeda family forces defeat Hiraga Genshin.
- Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monastries, including
- Basingwerk Abbey,
- Bourne Abbey
- Brinkburn Priory,
- Cartmel Priory,
- Dore Abbey
- The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary and St Chad
- Haltemprice Priory
- Tintern Abbey
- The legal and political union of Wales and England is reinforced by An Acte for Lawes & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme
- Manco Capac II revolts against Spanish rule in Peru
- Resumption of war between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin.
- Reformation: Protestantism introduced in Denmark and Norway, by king Christian III.
- The Portuguese crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.
Births
- February 2 (or March 26, 1537) - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1598)
- February 24 - Pope Clement VIII (died 1605)
- March 10 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (died 1572)
- March 31 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (died 1565)
- August 10 - Kaspar Olevianus, German Protestant theologian (died 1587)
- December 26 - Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (died 1584)
- date unknown
- Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (died 1593)
- Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (died 1578)
- Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (died 1608)
- Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (died 1554)
- Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I of England (died 1604)
- Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, British statesman and admiral (died 1624)
- Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (died 1596)
- Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese military commander (died 1584)
- See also :Category: 1536 births.
Deaths
- January 7 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (born 1485)
- January 22
- John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (born 1509)
- Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (born c. 1495)
- February 25
- Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (born 1492)
- Jacob Hutter, founder of the Hutterite religious movement (burned at the stake)
- March 1 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
- April 4 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1460)
- May 17 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat (executed, born 1503)
- May 19 - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (born c. 1511)
- May 26 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet (born 1497)
- June 18 - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (born 1519)
- June 28 - Richard Pace, English diplomat (born 1482)
- July 12 - Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (born c. 1466)
- September 6 - William Tyndale, English Protestant bible translator (born c. 1494)
- September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (born 1511)
- October 18 - Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (born 1503)
- December 21 - Sir John Seymour, English courtier (born 1474)
- date unknown
- Hector Boece - Scottish philosopher (born 1465)
- Hiraga Genshin, Japanese retainer and samurai
- John Rastell, English printer and author
- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist (born c. 1450)
- See also :Category: 1536 deaths.
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