1536

Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s

Years: 1531 1532 1533 1534 1535 - 1536 - 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541

• 2 February - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Wales is united with England by an Act of Union
• Manco 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

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese shogun
• 26 December - the Confucian scholar Yi I (Yulgok) of Joseon

Marriages

• 30 May - Henry VIII of England and Jane Seymour.

Deaths

• 7 January - Catherine of Aragon (wife of Henry VIII of England).
• 19 May - Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry VIII of England).
• 12 July - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
• September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet
• William Tyndale, Protestant martyr and scholar, is burned at the stake for heresy.

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