1537

1537 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1537; MDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2290
Armenian calendar	986; ԹՎ ՋՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	6287
Balinese saka calendar	1458–1459
Bengali calendar	944
Berber calendar	2487
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 8 – 29 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2081
Burmese calendar	899
Byzantine calendar	7045–7046
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey); 4233 or 4173; — to —; 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster); 4234 or 4174
Coptic calendar	1253–1254
Discordian calendar	2703
Ethiopian calendar	1529–1530
Hebrew calendar	5297–5298
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1593–1594
- Shaka Samvat	1458–1459
- Kali Yuga	4637–4638
Holocene calendar	11537
Igbo calendar	537–538
Iranian calendar	915–916
Islamic calendar	943–944
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 6; (天文６年)
Javanese calendar	1455–1456
Julian calendar	1537; MDXXXVII
Korean calendar	3870
Minguo calendar	375 before ROC ; 民前375年
Nanakshahi calendar	69
Thai solar calendar	2079–2080
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年; (male Fire-Monkey); 1663 or 1282 or 510; — to —; 阴火鸡年; (female Fire-Rooster); 1664 or 1283 or 511

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century ; 16th century ; 17th century ;
Decades:	1510s ; 1520s ; 1530s ; 1540s ; 1550s ;
Years:	1534 ; 1535 ; 1536 ; 1537 ; 1538 ; 1539 ; 1540 ;

Last updated May 24, 2021

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

Events

January–June

January
- Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England, is crushed.
- Battle of Ollantaytambo: Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui is victorious against the Spanish and their Indian allies led by Hernando Pizarro.
March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.
March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese, in Brazil.
April – Spanish conquest of the Muisca: Bacatá, the main settlement of the Muisca Confederation, is conquered by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, effectively ending the Confederation in the Colombian Eastern Andes.^[1]
April 1 – The Archbishop of Norway Olav Engelbrektsson flees from Trondheim to Lier, Belgium.
June 2 – 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.
June 23 – Siege of Hamar ends with the arrest of Bishop Mogens Lauritssøn, and the Catholic rebellion is definitively ended in Norway.

July–December

July – Rodrigo Orgóñez occupies and sacks the Inca center of Vitcos but Manco Inca Yupanqui escapes and establishes the independent Neo-Inca State elsewhere in Vilcabamba, Peru.
August 15 – Asunción is founded by Juan de Salazar de Espinosa.
August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
August-September – The Ottoman Empire fails to capture Corfu, but does this year conquer the islands of Paros and Ios.
October 15 – Following the baptism of her son, the future Edward VI of England, Jane Seymour begins suffering from puerperal fever.^[2]

Date unknown

The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
Kiritimati (Acea or "Christmas Island") is probably sighted by the Spanish mutineers from Hernando de Grijalva's expedition.
Bangalore is first mentioned.
Dissolution of all Monasteries in Norway: Religious buildings dissolved by Christian III include: Bakke Abbey, Munkeby Abbey, Tautra Abbey, Nidarholm Abbey, Gimsøy Abbey and Utstein Abbey.
Publication of complete Bible translations into English, both based on Tyndale's:
- Myles Coverdale's 1535 text, the first to be printed in England (by James Nicholson in Southwark, London)
- The Matthew Bible edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew" and printed in Antwerp.

Ongoing

Dissolution of the Monasteries in England: Religious buildings dissolved by Henry VIII of England include: Bisham Priory, Bridlington Priory, Castle Acre Priory, Chertsey Abbey, Furness Abbey, London Charterhouse and Valle Crucis Abbey.

Births

January 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567)
January 16 – Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1605)
January 21 – Antonio Maria Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1602)
February 26 – Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (d. 1575)
March 17 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1598)
March 4 – Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572)
May 18 – Guido Luca Ferrero, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1585)
May 20 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)
May 27 – Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, son of Landgrave Philip I (d. 1604)
May 28 or May 31 – Shah Ismail II of Persia (d. 1577)
June 3 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (d. 1554)
July 20 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
July 29 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (d. 1590)
July 30 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (d. 1592)
August 9 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician (d. 1604)
August 15 – Shimazu Toshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1592)
October – Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (d. 1554)^[3]^[4]
October 12 – King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)^[2]
November 21 – Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
December 5 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shōgun (d. 1597)
December 20 – King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)^[5]
December 24 – Willem IV van den Bergh, Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen (d. 1586)
December 26 – Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1593)
date unknown
- Jane Lumley, English translator (d. 1578)
- Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (d. 1582)
- John Almond, English Cistercian monk (d. 1585)

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 2 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (b. 1499)
February 3 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, Anglo-Irish noble, rebel (executed) (b. 1513)
February 8
- Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480)
- Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481)
January 11 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, German prince (b. 1498)
March 25 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme, French noble (b. 1489)
March 28 – Francesco of Saluzzo, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1498)
May 10 – Andrzej Krzycki, Polish archbishop (b. 1482)
May 24 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, German princess (b. 1485)
June 2 – Francis Bigod, English noble, rebel (executed) (b. 1507)
June 23 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
June 29 – Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English noble (b. 1502)
July 7 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)^[6]
July 12 – Robert Aske, English lawyer, rebel (executed) (b. 1500)
September 4 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
September 7 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1472)
September 20 – Pavle Bakić, last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch
October 24 – Jane Seymour, 3rd queen consort of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1508)^[2]
October 29 – Elizabeth Lucar, English calligrapher (b. 1510)
December 11 – Andrey of Staritsa, son of Ivan III of Russia the Great (b. 1490)
date unknown– John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
probable– Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)

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Year 1534 (MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Year 1536 (MDXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

The 1530s decade ran from January 1, 1530, to December 31, 1539.

The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559.

Year 1493 (MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

1544 (MDXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1544th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 544th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 16th century, and the 5th year of the 1540s decade. As of the start of 1544, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Year 1539 (MDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Year 1533 (MDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Year 1532 (MDXXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Year 1516 (MDXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

References

↑ Kathleen Romoli (1944). Colombia: Gateway to South America. Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated. p. 105.
1 2 3 Carole Levin; Anna Riehl Bertolet; Jo Eldridge Carney (November 3, 2016). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. Taylor & Francis. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-315-44071-2.
↑ David Mathew (1972). Lady Jane Grey: the Setting of the Reign. Eyre Methuen Limited. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-413-27980-4.
↑ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
↑ Encyclopedia Americana: Jefferson to Latin. Scholastic Library Pub. 2006. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6.
↑ Anne Commire (December 12, 2000). Women in World History. Gale. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-7876-4069-9.

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[1] Kathleen Romoli (1944). Colombia: Gateway to South America. Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated. p. 105.

[LevinBertolet2016-2] 1 2 3 Carole Levin; Anna Riehl Bertolet; Jo Eldridge Carney (November 3, 2016). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. Taylor & Francis. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-315-44071-2.

[3] David Mathew (1972). Lady Jane Grey: the Setting of the Reign. Eyre Methuen Limited. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-413-27980-4.

[4] "BBC - History - Historic Figures: Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2019.

[5] Encyclopedia Americana: Jefferson to Latin. Scholastic Library Pub. 2006. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6.

[6] Anne Commire (December 12, 2000). Women in World History. Gale. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-7876-4069-9.

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Gregorian calendar	1537 MDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2290
Armenian calendar	986 ԹՎ ՋՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	6287
Balinese saka calendar	1458–1459
Bengali calendar	944
Berber calendar	2487
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 8 – 29 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2081
Burmese calendar	899
Byzantine calendar	7045–7046
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4233 or 4173 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4234 or 4174
Coptic calendar	1253–1254
Discordian calendar	2703
Ethiopian calendar	1529–1530
Hebrew calendar	5297–5298
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1593–1594
- Shaka Samvat	1458–1459
- Kali Yuga	4637–4638
Holocene calendar	11537
Igbo calendar	537–538
Iranian calendar	915–916
Islamic calendar	943–944
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 6 (天文６年)
Javanese calendar	1455–1456
Julian calendar	1537 MDXXXVII
Korean calendar	3870
Minguo calendar	375 before ROC 民前375年
Nanakshahi calendar	69
Thai solar calendar	2079–2080
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1663 or 1282 or 510 — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1664 or 1283 or 511

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