1536

Years: 1533 1534 1535 - 1536 - 1537 1538 1539

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

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

Events

• February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• February 25 - Jacob Hutter burned in a stake for Heresy
• May 19 - Execution of Anne Boleyn
• May 30 - Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour
• October 13 - The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske
• October 29 - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England
• Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIIIs dissolution of the monastries, including
• Basingwerk Abbey,
• Bourne Abbey
• Brinkburn Priory,
• Cartmel Priory,
• Dore Abbey and
• The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary and St Chad
• Wales is united with England by an Act of Union
• Manco Capac II revolts from Spanish rule in Peru
• Resumption of war between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin.
• Protestantism introduced in Denmark
• Portuguese Crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.

Births

• March 10 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (died 1572)
• March 31 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (died 1565)
• December 26 - Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (died 1584)
• Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (died 1593)
• Pope Clement VIII (died 1605)
• Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (died 1578)
• Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (died 1608)
• Lord Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (died 1554)
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1598)
• Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I of England (died 1604)
• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, British statesman and admiral (died 1624)
• Kaspar Olevianus, German protestant theologian (died 1587)
• Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (died 1596)
• Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese military commander (died 1584)

Deaths

• January 7 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (born 1485)
• January 22 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (born ca. 1495)
• February 25 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (born 1492)
• March 1 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
• April 4 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1460)
• May 17 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat (born 1503)
• May 19 - Anne Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII of England (executed)
• May 26 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet
• June 18 - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (born 1519)
• July 12 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
• September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (born 1511)
• October 6 - William Tyndale, English protestant scholar (burned at the stake) (born 1484)
• December 21 - Sir John Seymour, English courtier (born 1474)
• Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher (born 1465)
• Hiraga Genshin, Japanese retainer and samurai
• Jacob Hutter, founder of the Hutterite religious movement
• John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (born 1509)
• Richard Pace, English diplomat (born 1482)
• John Rastell, English printer and author
• Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (born 1503)
• Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples, French theologian and humanist