1532

Years: 1529 1530 1531 - 1532 - 1533 1534 1535

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.
• September 1 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England.
• November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.
• Atahualpa wins Inca civil war over Huscar
• The Prince is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavelli
• Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais
• Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.

Births

• June 24 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1588)
• December 26 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (died 1576)
• Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (died 1613)
• William Cardinal Allen, English cardinal (died 1594)
• Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian portrait painter (died 1625)
• Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (died 1575)
• Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the Pléiade (died 1589)
• Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (died 1585)
• Luis Frois, Portuguese missionary (died 1597)
• Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (died 1602)
• John Hawkins, English navigator (died 1595)
• William IV of Hesse, German protestant leader
• Etienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (died 1573)
• Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland (died 1585)
• Thomas Norton, English lawyer (died 1584)
• Thomas Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde (died 1614)
• Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (died 1588)
• Richard Topcliffe, notorious English torturer and sadist (died 1604)
• Tulsidas, medieval Hindi poet and philosopher (died 1623)

Deaths

• January 31 - Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (born 1460)
• August 16 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
• December 11 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1455)
• Andrea Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1470)
• Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (born 1482)
• Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter
• Krzysztof Szydlowiecki, Polish noble (born 1467)
• William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1450)