1537

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Year 1537 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1537

January - June

• January 6 - Alessandro de Medici is assassinated.
• March - Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.

July - December

• August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.

Undated

• 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 Priory,
• Bridlington Priory,
• Castle Acre Priory, and
• Valle Crucis Abbey.
• Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.
• First mention of Bangalore.

Births

• January 1 - Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (died 1567)
• March 4 - Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (died 1572)
• May 20 - Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (died 1619)
• 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)
• date unknown
• Jane Lumley, English translator (died 1578)
• Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (died 1583)
• Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (died 1582)
• Saint John Almond (died 1585)

See also :Category: 1537 births.

Deaths

• January 6
• Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (born 1510)
• Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• January 12 - Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (born 1459)
• February 3 - Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (born 1513) (executed)
• February 8
• Otto von Pack, German conspirator (born c1480)
• Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (born 1481)
• June 23 - Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (born 1487)
• July 7 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1520)
• September 4 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (born c1475)
• October 24 - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (born c1507)
• date unknown
• John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
• Thomas Murner, German satirist (born 1475)
• Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (born 1502)
• Stefan Berislavić, the last Serb Despot and Medieval Serb monarch

See also :Category: 1537 deaths.

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