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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s |
| Years: | 1536 1537 1538 - 1539 - 1540 1541 1542 |
| 1539 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1539 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events of 1539
January - June
- January 12, Treaty of Toledo. Signed by Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor, Spanish King) and Francis I (French King), agreeing to make no further alliances with England. Grew out of the disagreement between Pope Paul III and Henry VIII.
- March - Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
- April 27 - Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduces pigs into North America.
- May - The Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.
July - December
- September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves.
- September 7 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs.
Undated
- Protestant Reformation: Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.
- Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, St Albans Abbey, Priory of St Mary, Nottinghamshire (Newstead Abbey) and St Mary's Abbey, York fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
- In a worse scenario than in 1531, when there was just a drought and locusts killing off the populace through starvation and cannibalism, this year in Henan province, China, during the Ming Dynasty, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse by a large epidemic outbreak of the plague.
- Francis I of France issues an ordinance that places the whole of France under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts and makes French the language of those courts.
- Horse Racing began at Chester
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1539 MDXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2292 |
| Armenian calendar | 988 ԹՎ ՋՁԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -305 – -304 |
| Berber calendar | 2489 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2083 |
| Burmese calendar | 901 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7047 – 7048 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月十二日 (4175/4235-12-12) — to —
己亥年十一月廿二日(4176/4236-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1255 – 1256 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1531 – 1532 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5299 – 5300 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1594 – 1595 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1461 – 1462 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4640 – 4641 |
| Holocene calendar | 11539 |
| Iranian calendar | 917 – 918 |
| Islamic calendar | 945 – 946 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 8 (天文8年) |
| Korean calendar | 3872 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2082 |
- April 5 - George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603)
- April 7 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss artist (d. 1584)
- October 2 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
- November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
- December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
- date unknown
- José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (d. 1590)
- Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (d. 1610)
- Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (d. 1578)
- Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (d. 1608)
- See also Category: 1539 births.
Deaths
- February 6 - John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)
- February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
- March 12 - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)
- April 17 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
- May 7 - Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
- July 5 - St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
- August - Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (b. 1480)
- September 8 - John Stokesley, English prelate (b. 1475)
- November 15 - Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
- December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. c. 1539)
- date unknown
- James Beaton, Scottish church leader (b. 1473)
- See also Category: 1539 deaths.
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