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Year '1536' was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1536

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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.

★ April 30 - Inquisition is implemented in Portugal.

★ June 24- Cristobal de Onate founds San Juan Bautista del Teul.

★ June 27 - San Pedro Sula was 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

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★ Basingwerk Abbey,

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★ Bourne Abbey

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★ Brinkburn Priory,

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★ Cartmel Priory,

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★ Dore Abbey

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★ The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary and St Chad

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★ Haltemprice Priory

★ 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 from 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.

★ 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''

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★ Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (died 1593)

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★ Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (died 1578)

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★ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (died 1608)

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★ Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (died 1554)

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★ Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I of England (died 1604)

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★ Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, British statesman and admiral (died 1624)

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★ Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (died 1596)

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★ Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese military commander (died 1584)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 7 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (born 1485)

★ January 22

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★ John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (born 1509)

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★ Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (born ca. 1495)

★ February 25

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★ Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (born 1492)

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★ 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 (born 1503)

★ May 19 - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (born c1511)

★ 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 c1466)

★ 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''

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★ Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher (born 1465)

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★ Hiraga Genshin, Japanese retainer and samurai

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★ John Rastell, English printer and author

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★ Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist (born c1450)
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