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 - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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

Events of 1537

January - June

January 6: Alessandro de Medici killed.

• January 6 - Alessandro de Medici 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.
• May - City of Asuncion, Paraguay founded.

July - December

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

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.

1537: Potato to Europe.

• 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.

Births

• 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 23 - 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.

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)
• July 7 - Madeleine de 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.