Events

• 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 - 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation
• September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
• September 7 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs
• Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.
• The town of Shuya was founded (official date)
• Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey and St Albans Abbey fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Births

• March 25 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1612)
• October 2 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
• November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (died 1596)
• December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (died 1604)
• Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (died 1590)
• Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)
• Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (died 1568)
• Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (died 1610)
• Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (died 1578)
• Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (died 1608)

See also Category: 1539 births.

Deaths

• February 6 - John III, Duke of Cleves (born 1491)
• February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
• March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 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)
• September 8 - John Stokesley, English prelate (born 1475)
• December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
• James Beaton, Scottish church leader
• Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (born 1480)
• Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
• Symeon Iwanowicz Trubczewski, governor of Kostroma

See also Category: 1539 deaths.

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