1533

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s – 1530s – 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years:	1530 1531 1532 – 1533 – 1534 1535 1536

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Year 1533 (MDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 25 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.
March 30 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
May 23 – King Henry VIII of England's marriage with Catherine of Aragon is declared annulled by Archbishop Cranmer. Since Pope Clement VII had already rejected Henry's petition for annulment in 1530, Catherine continues to believe herself Henry's wife until her death.
June 1 – Cranmer crowns Anne Boleyn as queen in Westminster Abbey.

July 11 – Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII, as is Archbishop Cranmer.
July 22 – Treaty of Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria: Ferdinand I, King of the Romans, withdraws his claims to most of Hungary and János Szapolyai, voivode of Transylvania, becomes King of Hungary under the suzerainty of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
July 26 – Inca Atahualpa is executed by garotte at the orders of Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca.
September 7 – Anne Boleyn gives birth to Princess Elizabeth I, the future Elizabeth I of England.
November 15 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.
December 3 – Ivan IV succeeds his father Vasili III as Grand Prince of Muscovy at three years old.
December – Hernando de Grijalva and his crew discover the uninhabited Revillagigedo Islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico
- December 21 (Feast of St Thomas the Apostle) – They discover Isla Santo Tomé, probably Socorro Island.
- December 28 – They discover Isla de los Inocentes, probably San Benedicto Island.^[1]

The Statute in Restraint of Appeals declares the king to be the supreme sovereign in England and forbids judicial appeals to the papacy.
Paracelsus interprets the Bible in Appenzell.
Pechenga Monastery is founded in the far north of Russia.
1533–1534 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent makes the Ruthenian harem girl Roxelana his legal wife.

February 9 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (d. 1592)
April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1604)
April 24 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
August 2 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
August 7 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Queen Anne Boleyn (d. 1603)
September 27 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586)
December 13 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
date unknown – Eknath, Marathi saint (d. 1599)
probable
- Amina, Queen of Zazzua (d. 1610)
- David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1566)