1537

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January 6: Alessandro de Medici killed.

Potatoes come to Europe.

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

Events

January–June

• January – Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England
• January 6 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence is assassinated.
• 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.
• June 2 – 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.

July–December

• August 15 – Asunción is founded by Juan de Salazar de Espinosa.
• August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
• August-September – The Ottomans fail to capture Corfu.

Date unknown

• Manco Cápac establishes the independent Neo-Inca State at Vilcabamba, Peru.
• The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
• Kiritimati (Acea or "Christmas Island") is discovered by the Spanish expedition of Hernando de Grijalva.
• The island of Paros is conquered by the Ottoman Empire
• Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII of England, including
  • Bridlington Priory,
  • Castle Acre Priory,
  • Valle Crucis Abbey, and
  • Bisham Priory (Bisham Abbey being founded in its place).
• Bangalore is first mentioned.

Births

• January 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567)
• January 16 – Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1605)
• January 21 – Antonio Maria Salviati, Catholic cardinal (d. 1602)
• February 26 – Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (d. 1575)
• March 4 – Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572)
• May 18 – Guido Luca Ferrero, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1585)
• May 20 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)
• May 27 – Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, son of Landgrave Philip I (d. 1604)
• May 28 – Ismail II, Shah of Persia (d. 1577)
• June 3 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (d. 1554)
• July 20 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
• July 29 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (d. 1590)
• July 30 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (d. 1592)
• August 9 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician (d. 1604)
• August 15 – Shimazu Toshihisa, Samurai (d. 1592)
• October 12
  • King Edward VI of England, son of King Henry VIII of England and Queen Jane Seymour (d. 1553)
  • 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)
• December 24 – Willem IV van den Bergh (d. 1586)
• December 26 – Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1593)
• 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)
  • John Almond, Cistercian monk (d. 1585)

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)
• June 23 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
• June 29 – Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1502)
• July 7 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
• July 14 – Robert Aske (executed) (b. 1500)
• September 4 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
• October 9 – Pavle Bakić, last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch
• October 24 – Jane Seymour, Third Queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1508)
• date unknown – John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
• probable – Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)

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