1537

Years: 1534 1535 1536 - 1537 - 1538 1539 1540

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

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

Events

• January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated
• August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.
• Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls who must not be enslaved or robbed.
• Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru
• Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
• The Spaniards bring the Potato to Europe
• Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway
• Dissolution of religious buildings by Henry VIII, including
  • Bisham Priory,
  • Bridlington Priory,
  • Castle Acre Priory, and
  • Valle Crucis Abbey
• Bisham Abbey founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory

Births

• June 28 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (died 1595)
• July 20 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
• October 12 - King Edward VI of England (died 1553)
• October 12 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (died 1554)
• December 5 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (died 1597)
• December 23 - King John III of Sweden (died 1592)
• Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish military leader (died 1583)
• Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China
• Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (died 1619)
• Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (died 1582)
• Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (died 1567)
• Saint John Almond

Deaths

• January 6 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (born 1510)
• January 6 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• February 8 - Otto von Pack, German conspirator
• July 7 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1520)
• September 4 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian
• October 24 - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth)
• Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (born 1459)
• Jerome Emiliani, Italian humanitarian and saint (born 1481)
• Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (born 1513)
• John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
• Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (born 1487)
• Thomas Murner, German satirist (born 1475)
• Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (born 1502)