1536

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

Events of 1536

January - June

* january 7 - Catharine of Aragon, first consort queen from Henry VIII, dies.
* February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* February 25 - Jacob Hutter is burned at the stake for heresy.
* May 19 - Anne Boleyn is executed by Henry VIII.
* 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 the Andes.
* April 30 - The 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 - Jane Seymour is crowned Queen of England.

Undated

* Charles V triumphally enters Rome following Via Triuphalis and delivers a speech before the pope and college of cardinals. In the speech he publicly challenged king of France on a duel.
* 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.
* War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin.
* Reformation in Denmark: Protestantism is introduced in Denmark and Norway by King Christian III.
* The Portuguese crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.
* Trade compact exempts French merchants from Ottoman law and allows them to travel, buy and sell throughout the sultan's dominions and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports. The compact is renewed in 1569.
* Battle of Reynogüelén: First battle between Spanish conquistadors and Mapuches in Chile. Arauco War begins.

Births

* February 2 (or March 26, 1537) - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1598)
* February 24 - Pope Clement VIII (d. 1605)
* March 10 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
* March 31 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
* August 10 - Kaspar Olevianus, German Protestant theologian (d. 1587)
* December 26 - Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
*"date unknown"
**Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (d. 1593)
**Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (d. 1578)
**Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (d. 1608)
**Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (d. 1554)
**Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I of England (d. 1604)
**Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, British statesman and admiral (d. 1624)
**Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (d. 1596)
**Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese military commander (d. 1584)
**Antonio Monserrate, Spanish Jesuit (d. 1600).

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Deaths

* January 7 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
* January 22
**John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (b. 1509)
**Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. c. 1495)
* February 25
**Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 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 (b. 1460)
* May 17 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat (executed) (b. 1503)
* May 19 - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. c. 1501/07)
* May 26 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet (b. 1497)
* June 18 - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
* June 28 - Richard Pace, English diplomat (b. 1482)
* July 12 - Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (b. c. 1466)
* September 6 - William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
* September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
* October 18 - Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503)
* December 21 - Sir John Seymour, English courtier (b. 1474)
*"date unknown"
**Hector Boece - Scottish philosopher (b. 1465)
**Hiraga Genshin, Japanese retainer and samurai
**John Rastell, English printer and author
**Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist (b. c. 1450)

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