1536

This article is about the year 1536.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  – 1530s –  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1533 1534 1535 – 1536 – 1537 1538 1539

1536 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1536 MDXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2289
Armenian calendar	985 ԹՎ ՋՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6286
Bengali calendar	943
Berber calendar	2486
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 8 – 28 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2080
Burmese calendar	898
Byzantine calendar	7044–7045
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4232 or 4172     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4233 or 4173
Coptic calendar	1252–1253
Discordian calendar	2702
Ethiopian calendar	1528–1529
Hebrew calendar	5296–5297
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1592–1593
- Shaka Samvat	1458–1459
- Kali Yuga	4637–4638
Holocene calendar	11536
Igbo calendar	536–537
Iranian calendar	914–915
Islamic calendar	942–943
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 5 (天文５年)
Julian calendar	1536 MDXXXVI
Korean calendar	3869
Minguo calendar	376 before ROC 民前376年
Thai solar calendar	2078–2079

February 25: Jacob Hutter.

May 19: Execution of Anne Boleyn.

May 30: Jane Seymour becomes the third queen consort to Henry VIII of England after the execution of Anne Boleyn.

Year 1536 (MDXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 7 – Catherine of Aragon, first queen of Henry VIII of England, dies.
• February 2 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• February 25 – Jacob Hutter is burned at the stake for heresy.
• April 30 – The Inquisition is implemented in Portugal.
• May 2 – Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England, is arrested on the grounds of incest, adultery, and treason.
• May 6 – Incan emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui, having on April 18 escaped from imprisonment in Cuzco, begins his revolt against his captors when his army begins the 10-month Siege of Cuzco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro.
• May 17 – The five men accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn, including her own brother George Boleyn, are executed.
• May 19 – Anne Boleyn, queen consort of Henry VIII of England is executed in the Tower of London.
• May 30 – Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour.
• June 24 – Cristóbal de Oñate founds San Juan Bautista del Teul.
• June 26 – Andrés de Urdaneta and a few companions arrive in Lisbon, completing a circumnavigation which began with de Loaísa's expedition of 1525.
• June 27 – San Pedro Sula is founded by Pedro de Alvarado.

July–December

• October 13 – The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske.

Date unknown

• War resumes between Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin. Charles triumphally enters Rome following the Via Triuphalis and delivers a speech before the pope and college of cardinals publicly challenging the king of France to a duel.
• Battle of Un no Kuchi: Takeda Family forces defeat Hiraga Genshin.
• Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIII of England's Dissolution of the Monasteries, including
  • Basingwerk Abbey
  • Bourne Abbey
  • Brinkburn Priory
  • Buildwas Abbey
  • Cartmel Priory
  • Dore Abbey
  • Haltemprice Priory
  • Tintern Abbey
• The legal and political union of Wales with England is reinforced by An Acte for Lawes & Justice to be ministred in Wales in like fourme as it is in this Realme.
• Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein: Protestantism is introduced in Denmark and Norway by King Christian III.
• Publication of John Calvin's Institutio Christianæ religionis, a seminal work of Protestant systematic theology.
• Battle of Reynogüelén: First battle between Spanish conquistadors and Mapuches in Chile; start of the Arauco War.
• The Portuguese crown divides Colonial Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.
• Trade compact exempts French merchants from Ottoman law and allows them to travel, buy and sell throughout the sultan's dominions and to pay low customs duties on French imports and exports. The compact is renewed in 1569.

Births

• January 22 – Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1569)
• February 2
  • Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, French poet (d. 1623)
  • Piotr Skarga, Polish writer (d. 1612)
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. this day or March 26, 1537; d. 1598)
• February 12 – Leonardo Donato, Doge of Venice (d. 1612)
• February 24 – Pope Clement VIII (d. 1605)
• March 6 – Santi di Tito, Italian painter (d. 1603)
• March 10 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
• March 31 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
• April 8 – Barbara of Hesse (d. 1597)
• May 3 – Stephan Praetorius, German theologian (d. 1603)
• May 13 – Jacobus Pamelius, Belgian bishop (d. 1587)
• August 10 – Caspar Olevian, German Protestant theologian (d. 1587)
• August 14 – René, Marquis of Elbeuf (d. 1566)
• October 18 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian, writer on legal subjects, politician (d. 1601)
• October 21 – Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (d. 1586)
• October 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician (d. 1614)
• November 11 – Marcantonio Memmo, Doge of Venice (d. 1615)
• November 22 – Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1606)
• December 26 – Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
• December 29 – Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen (d. 1572)
• date unknown
  • Juan de Fuca, Greek maritime pilot (d. 1602)
  • Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (d. 1593)
  • Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (d. 1578)
  • Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (d. 1608)
  • Guilford Dudley, son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (d. 1554)
  • Roger Marbeck, chief physician to Elizabeth I of England (d. 1604)
  • Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, British statesman and admiral (d. 1624)
  • Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (d. 1596)
  • Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese military commander (d. 1584)

Deaths

• January 7 – Catherine of Aragon, First Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
• January 22
  • John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (b. 1509)
  • Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. c. 1495)
• February 25
  • Berchtold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
  • Jacob Hutter, founder of the Hutterite religious movement (burned at the stake)
• March 1 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
• April 4 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
• May 17 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, English diplomat (executed) (b. 1503)
• May 19 – Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. c. 1501/1507)
• May 26 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet (b. 1497)
• June 18 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
• June 28 – Richard Pace, English diplomat (b. 1482)
• July 12 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (b. c. 1466)
• September 6 – William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
• September 25 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
• September 26 – Didier de Saint-Jaille, 46th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller
• October 18 – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503)
• December 21 – Sir John Seymour, English courtier (b. 1474)
• date unknown
  • Hector Boece – Scottish philosopher (b. 1465)
  • Hiraga Genshin, Japanese retainer and samurai
  • John Rastell, English printer and author
  • Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist (b. c. 1450)