1537
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| 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 |
Year 1537 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1537
[edit] January - June
- 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.
[edit] July - December
- August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
[edit] 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.
- Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
- The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
- Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway.
- Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII, including
- Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.
- Bangalore is first mentioned.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1537 MDXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2290 |
| Armenian calendar | 986 ԹՎ ՋՁԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -307 – -306 |
| Berber calendar | 2487 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2081 |
| Burmese calendar | 899 |
| Chinese calendar | 4173/4233-12-20 (丙申年十二月二十日) — to —
4174/4234-11-30(丁酉年十一月三十日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1253 – 1254 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1529 – 1530 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5297 – 5298 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1592 – 1593 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1459 – 1460 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4638 – 4639 |
| Holocene calendar | 11537 |
| Iranian calendar | 915 – 916 |
| Islamic calendar | 943 – 944 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 6 (天文6年) |
| Korean calendar | 3870 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2080 |
- 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.
[edit] 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.
