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De Soto Crosses Appalachians

Jun 3 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto crosses the Appalachian Mountains, 1st European to do so

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto lands on the coast of Florida, somewhere between present-day Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor

Cromwell Arrested

Jun 10 Former chief minister to King Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell is arrested in Westminster for treason and heresy

Lawyer and Statesman Thomas Cromwell

Henry VIII Expels Anne of Cleves

Jun 24 English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court

Queen of England Anne of Cleves
King of England Henry VIII
  • Jun 29 UK parliament passes The Act of Attainder over former Chancellor of the Exchequer of England Thomas Cromwell, indicting him as a heretic
Events in 1540

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 3 Charles II Archduke of Austria, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1590)
  • Jun 11 Barnabe Googe, English poet, born in Alvingham, Lincolnshire (d. 1594)
  • Jun 23 Johann Baptista Serranus, German singer and composer, Born in Lehrberg bei Ansbach, Duchy of Bavaria (now Lehrberg, Germany) (d. 1600)
Born in 1540


What Happened in 1540

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