1539

Year '1539' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1539

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1539

January - June

★ March - Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.

★ April 27: Founding of the capital Bogotá in Colombia (Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar)

★ May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduced pigs into North America

★ May - The Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.

July - December

★ September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves.

★ September 7 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs.

Undated

★ Protestant Reformation: Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.

★ Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey and St Albans Abbey fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Births

★ April 5 - George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)

★ April 7 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss artist, (died 1584)

★ October 2 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (died 1584)

★ November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (died 1596)

★ December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (died 1604)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (died 1590)

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★ Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (died 1610)

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★ Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (died 1578)

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★ Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (died 1608)
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Deaths

★ February 6 - John III, Duke of Cleves (born 1491)

★ February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (born 1474)

★ March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (born 1487)

★ March 12 - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)

★ April 17 - George, Duke of Saxony (born 1471)

★ May 7 - Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)

★ May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)

★ July 5 - St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (born 1502)

★ August - Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (born 1480)

★ September 8 - John Stokesley, English prelate (born 1475)

★ November 15 - Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading

★ December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (born c1539)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ James Beaton, Scottish church leader (born 1473)
: ''See also .''