- 1537
Year 1537 was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1537
January - June
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January 6 -Alessandro de Medici is assassinated.
*March -Diego de Almagro successfully chargesManco Inca 's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, thePizarro brothers .
*March 12 -Recife is founded by the Portuguese inBrazil .
*May - City of Asuncion, Paraguay founded.July - December
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August 25 -The Honourable Artillery Company , the oldest surviving regiment in theBritish Army , and the second most senior, is formed.Undated
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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 .
* The Spaniards bring thepotato to Europe.*
Christian III forces introduction ofLutheran Protestantism inDenmark andNorway .
* Religious buildings are dissolved 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.
*Bangalore is first mentioned.Births
*January 1 -Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski , Polish noble (d.1567 )
*March 4 -Longqing Emperor ,Emperor of China (d.1572 )
*May 20 -Hieronymus Fabricius , Italian anatomist (d.1619 )
*June 28 -Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel , English nobleman (d.1595 )
*July 20 -Arnaud d'Ossat , French diplomat and writer (d.1604 )
*October 12 - KingEdward VI of England (d.1553 )
*October 12 -Lady Jane Grey , claimant to the throne of England (d.1554 )
*December 5 -Ashikaga Yoshiaki , Japanese shogun (d.1597 )
*December 23 - KingJohn III of Sweden (d.1592 )
*"date unknown"
**Jane Lumley , English translator (d.1578 )
**Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba , Spanish military leader (d.1583 )
**Shimizu Muneharu , Japanese military commander (d.1582 )
**SaintJohn Almond (d.1585 ): "See also ."
Deaths
*January 6
**Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b.1510 )
**Baldassare Peruzzi , Italian architect and painter (b.1481 )
*January 12 -Lorenzo di Credi , Florentine painter and sculptor (b.1459 )
*February 3 -Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (executed) (b.1513 )
*February 8
**Otto von Pack , German conspirator (b. c.1480 )
**SaintGerolamo Emiliani , Italian humanitarian (b.1481 )
*June 23 -Pedro de Mendoza , Spanish conquistador (b.1487 )
*July 7 -Madeleine de Valois , queen ofJames V of Scotland (b.1520 )
*September 4 -Johann Dietenberger , German theologian (b. c.1475 )
*October 24 -Jane Seymour , queen ofHenry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c.1507 )
*"date unknown"
**John Kite , Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
**Thomas Murner , German satirist (b.1475 )
**Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b.1502 )
**Stefan Berislavić , last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch: "See also ."
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