Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  – 1530s –  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1534 1535 1536 – 1537 – 1538 1539 1540

1537 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 1537 (MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1537 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1537

[edit] January–June

• January 6 – Alessandro de Medici is assassinated.
• January – Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England
• March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.
• March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
• May – City of Asuncion, Paraguay founded.
• May 19th – Lady Sara Rushbrok dies

[edit] July–December

• August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

[edit] Undated

• Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls who must not be enslaved or robbed.
• Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru.
• The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
• The island of Paros is conquered by the Ototman Empire

• Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway.
• Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII, including
  • Bisham Priory,
  • Bridlington Priory,
  • Castle Acre Priory, and
  • Valle Crucis Abbey.
• Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.
• Bangalore is first mentioned.

[edit] Births

1537 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1537 MDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2290
Armenian calendar	986 ԹՎ ՋՁԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-307 – -306
Bengali calendar	944
Berber calendar	2487
Buddhist calendar	2081
Burmese calendar	899
Byzantine calendar	7045 – 7046
Chinese calendar	丙申年十二月二十日 (4173/4233-12-20) — to — 丁酉年十一月三十日 (4174/4234-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1253 – 1254
Ethiopian calendar	1529 – 1530
Hebrew calendar	5297 – 5298
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1592 – 1593
- Shaka Samvat	1459 – 1460
- Kali Yuga	4638 – 4639
Holocene calendar	11537
Iranian calendar	915 – 916
Islamic calendar	943 – 944
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 6 (天文6年)
Korean calendar	3870
Thai solar calendar	2080
v • d • e

• January 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567)
• March 4 – Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572)
• May 20 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)
• June 28 – Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595)
• July 20 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
• October 12 – King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
• October 12 – Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (d. 1554)
• December 5 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597)
• December 20 – King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
• date unknown
  • Jane Lumley, English translator (d. 1578)
  • Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
  • Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (d. 1582)
  • Saint John Almond (d. 1585)

See also Category: 1537 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 6
  • Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
  • Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• January 12 – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1459)
• February 3 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (executed) (b. 1513)
• February 8
  • Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480)
  • Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481)
• May 19 – Lady Sara Rushbrok, Lady-in-waiting to Jane Seymour (b.1518)
• June 23 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
• July 7 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
• September 4 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
• October 24 – Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1507)
• date unknown
  • John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
  • Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)
  • Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1502)
  • Stefan Berislavić, last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch

See also Category: 1537 deaths.