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1536

Years: 1533 1534 1535 - 1536 - 1537 1538 1539

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• May 19 - Execution of Anne Boleyn
• May 30 - Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour
• October 29 - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England

• Wales is united with England by an Act of Union
• Manco Capac II revolts from Spanish rule in Peru
• Resumption of war between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin.
• Protestantism introduced in Denmark
• Portuguese Crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.
• Jacob Hutter burned in a stake for heresy

Births

• March - Pope Clement VIII
• 26 December - the Confucian scholar Yi I (Yulgok) of Joseon
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese shogun

Marriages

• 30 May - Henry VIII of England and Jane Seymour.

Deaths

• 7 January - Catherine of Aragon (wife of Henry VIII of England).
• 17 May - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford , English diplomat.
• 19 May - Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry VIII of England).
• 12 July - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
• September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet
• October 6 - William Tyndale, Protestant martyr and scholar, is burned at the stake for heresy.
• December 21 - Sir John Seymour, English courtier.