Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  – 1530s –  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1528 1529 1530 – 1531 – 1532 1533 1534

1531 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1531 (MDXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1531 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1531

[edit] January–June

• January 26 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake in which thousands die.
• February 11 – Henry VIII of England is recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.
• February 27 – Lutheran princes in the Holy Roman Empire form a defensive alliance known as the Schmalkaldic League.
• February (or March) – Battle of Antukyah: Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of Adal defeats the Ethiopian army.
• April – Battle of Puná: Francisco Pizarro defeats the island's native inhabitants.
• April 16 – The city of Puebla, Mexico is founded.
• June 24 – The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico is founded.

[edit] July–December

• July 25 – The city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico is founded.
• September 22 – Battle of Obertyn: The Moldavians are defeated by Polish forces under Jan Amor Tarnowski, allowing the Polish Crown to retrieve Pokucie.
• October 11 – Battle of Kappel: The forces of Zürich are defeated by the Catholic cantons. Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss religious reformer, is killed.
• October 28 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia thus falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
• December 12 – The Virgin Mary, in the guise of Our Lady of Guadalupe, appears to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism.

[edit] Undated

• Andrea Alciato publishes the first part of his Emblemata.
• The Comet Halley appears (Perihelion: August 26).
• Conquistador Francisco de Montejo claims Chichen Itza as capital of Spanish ruled Yucatán.
• The University of Sarajevo is founded by Gazi Husrev-beg.
• Kõpu Lighthouse is completed.
• An enormous drought in Henan province of China during the Ming Dynasty is coupled with the disaster of a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forcing many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying off by starvation.
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system by pressure of Bartolome de Las Casas.
• Witch-hunt in the town of Schiltach, Germany

[edit] Births

1531 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1531 MDXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2284
Armenian calendar	980 ԹՎ ՋՁ
Bahá'í calendar	-313 – -312
Bengali calendar	938
Berber calendar	2481
Buddhist calendar	2075
Burmese calendar	893
Byzantine calendar	7039 – 7040
Chinese calendar	庚寅年十二月十三日 (4167/4227-12-13) — to — 辛卯年十一月廿三日 (4168/4228-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1247 – 1248
Ethiopian calendar	1523 – 1524
Hebrew calendar	5291 – 5292
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1586 – 1587
- Shaka Samvat	1453 – 1454
- Kali Yuga	4632 – 4633
Holocene calendar	11531
Iranian calendar	909 – 910
Islamic calendar	937 – 938
Japanese calendar	Kyōroku 4 (享禄4年)
Korean calendar	3864
Thai solar calendar	2074
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• September – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (d. 1594)
• October 12 – Jacques de Savoie, 2nd Duc de Nemours (d. 1585)
• 14 November – Richard Topcliffe, notorious English torturer and sadist (d. 1604)
• November 18 – Roberto di Ridolfi, Italian conspirator against Elizabeth I (d. 1612)
• date unknown
  • Henry, Count of Bréderode (d. 1568)
  • Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese nobleman (d. 1575)
  • John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1607)
  • António, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (d. 1595)

See also Category: 1531 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 21 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (b. 1487)
• February 16 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (b. 1452)
• March 6 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (b. c. 1440)
• May 19 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
• July 7 – Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (b. 1460)
• July 17 – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
• July 23 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
• October 10 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (in battle) (b. 1484)
• September 22 – Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I of France (b. 1476)
• November 24 – Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
• date unknown
  • Vallabhacharya, founder of the Hindu Vallabha sect (b. 1479)
• probable
  • Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (b. 1492)

See also Category: 1531 deaths.