1534 (MDXXXIV) was a common year in the 16th century.

Events

• February 27 - Group of Anabaptists of Jan Matthys seize Münster and declare it "The New Little Jerusalem" - they begin to exile dissenters and forcible baptize all others
• May 10 - Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage.
• June 9 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
• July 7 - First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
• Cambridge University Press given Royal Charter by Henry VIII and becomes the first of the privileged presses
• Henry VIII angry at the Pope's refusal to grant divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Henry declares himself Supreme Head of the English church, the Church of England. See also: The derivative but more widely spread: Anglican Communion Church.
• Publication of Gargantua by François Rabelais
• Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament into German appears

Births

• February 5 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer, composer, and soldier (died 1612)
• June 23 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (died 1582)
• July 1 - King Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588)
• July 18 - Zacharius Ursinus, German theologian (died 1583)
• September 24 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)
• Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 1590)
• William Harrison, English clergyman (died 1593)
• José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Brazil (died 1597)
• Isaac Luria, Jewish scholar and mystic (died 1572)
• Henri Ier de Montmorency, Marshal of France (died 1614)
• Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman of the Elizabethan era (died 1601)
• Nicholas Remy, French Catholic priest (died 1600)
• Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
• Paul Skalic, Croatian encyclopedist, humanist and adventurer (died 1573)
• Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noble lady (died 1570)

See also Category: 1534 births.

Deaths

• January 25 - Magdalena of Saxony (born 1507)
• March 5 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (born 1488)
• April 20 - Elizabeth Barton English nun (executed) (born 1506)
• August 9 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (born 1470)
• September 25 - Pope Clement VII (born 1478)
• Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (born 1477)
• István Báthory, Hungarian noble (born 1477)
• Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1474)
• Michal Glinski, Lithuanian prince
• Cesare Hercolani, Italian soldier (born 1499)
• William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, scholar and patron
• Amago Okihisa, Japanese nobleman
• Antonio Pigafetta, Italian navigator (born 1491)
• Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)
• John Taylor, Master of the Rolls (born 1480)

See also Category: 1534 deaths.

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