Major Events
- Feb 9 Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
- Mar 17 French troops invade Flanders
- May 3 Strategic city of Santa Cruz de Mompox founded on the Magdalena River (modern Colombia) by Spanish conquistadors
- Jul 12 Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro
- Jul 30 Resistant of Bomy: French Dutch cease fire
- Aug 15 Asunción is founded in Paraguay
- Aug 25 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed
- Sep 2 Danish King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" establishing Lutheranism as the state religion within his realms
- Sep 24 Catholic uprising in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (now Germany) fails
- Oct 4 1st printing in England of complete English-language Bible, the "Matthew's Bible", with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (an update of the earlier "Coverdale Bible") [exact month/day unclear] [1]
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Who Died in 1537
- Jan 7 Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Italian ruler of Florence (1532-37), assassinated by his friend and cousin at 26
- Jan 12 Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies
- Apr 8 Willem Aerts, Flemish architect and sculptor (Bruges School), dies
- Jul 7 Madeleine of Valois, French princess who briefly became Queen of Scotland after marrying James V, dies only six months after the wedding at 16
- Sep 4 Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
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