1533
Years:
1530 1531 1532 - 1533 - 1534 1535 1536Decades:
1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560sCenturies:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Events
- January 25 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, his second Queen consort.
- March 30 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
- April 9 - Troops of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim sack the monastic complex of Lalibela in Abyssinia
- May 23 - King Henry VIII of England marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled. Catherine refuses to accept and continues to believe herself the wife of Henry till her death.
- June 1 - Henry VIII of England's new wife, Anne Boleyn, is crowned as queen.
- July 11 Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII
- Russia, Ivan IV succeeds his father Vasili III as Grand Prince of Muscovy at 3 years old.
- Peru, Inca Atahualpa pays Francisco Pizarro ransom of approx. $100 million in gold; Pizarro executes him anyway.
- Peace treaty divides Hungary between Suleiman I and King Ferdinand
Births
- February 9 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (died 1611)
- February 28 - Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (died 1592)
- April 8 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (died 1604)
- April 24 - William I of Orange (died 1584)
- August 2 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (died 1588)
- August 7 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
- September 7 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1603)
- December 13 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (died 1577)
- Stephen Bathory, King of Poland (died 1586)
- David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (died 1566)
- Amina Zazzua, Queen of Zazzua (died 1610)
Deaths
- April 10 - King Frederick I of Denmark (born 1471)
- April 28 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
- June 25 - Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (born 1496)
- July 6 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (born 1474)
- September 20 - Veit Stoss, Geyour rubishrman sculptor
- December 3 - Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy (born 1479)
- Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru (executed)
- John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr (born 1503)
- Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (born 1494)
- Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (born 1477)
- Gustav Trolle, Archbishop of Uppsala
- Fortún Ximénez, Spanish sailor and mutineer