Major Events
- Feb 15 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
- Feb 19 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
- Apr 19 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
- Apr 27 Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- May 30 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition of 10 ships and 700 men lands in Florida
- Jun 3 Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
- Jun 10 Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
- Dec 29 St Jacob's Church burns after being hit by lightning
Born in 1539
- Jan 7 Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer (Treasury of Castilian or Spanish Language) (d. 1613)
- Feb 27 Franciscus Raphelengius, Flemish book publisher (1st Arabic-Latin dictionary), born in Lannoy (d. 1587)
- Mar 25 Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
- Apr 17 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (Strasbourg astronomical clock), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1584)
- Jun 13 Jost Amman, Swiss cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1591)
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