Major Events
- Jan 15 King Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
- Jan 18 Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima in Peru
- Feb 10 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
- Mar 10 Spanish Bishop of Panama Tomés de Berlanga discovers the uninhabited Galapagos Islands after his ship drifts off course
- Mar 28 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed in Friesland
- May 4 Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- May 19 French explorer Jacques Cartier leaves France on his second voyage of discovery to Newfoundland for Francis I, with three ships [1]
- Jun 14 Emperor Charles V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
- Jun 17 Trial of English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer for treason (declared King Henry VIII was not the Supreme Head of the Church in England) at Westminster Hall - found guilty and later hanged
- Jun 22 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
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Born in 1535
- Feb 11 Gregory XIV [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Roman Catholic Pope (1590-91), born in Somma Lombardo, Duchy of Milan (d. 1591)
- May 31 Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and carpet designer, born in Florence (d. 1607)
- Jun 2 Leo XI [Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici], Italian Pope in 1605 who had the shortest reign as pope in history, born in Florence (d. 1605)
- Jun 24 Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, born in Madrid (d. 1573)
- Jul 22 Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
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