1539
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1500s 1510s 1520s – 1530s – 1540s 1550s 1560s |
| Years: | 1536 1537 1538 – 1539 – 1540 1541 1542 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1539 MDXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2292 |
| Armenian calendar | 988 ԹՎ ՋՁԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6289 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −305 – −304 |
| Bengali calendar | 946 |
| Berber calendar | 2489 |
| English Regnal year | 30 Hen. 8 – 31 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2083 |
| Burmese calendar | 901 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7047–7048 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4235 or 4175 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4236 or 4176 |
| Coptic calendar | 1255–1256 |
| Discordian calendar | 2705 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1531–1532 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5299–5300 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1595–1596 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1461–1462 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4640–4641 |
| Holocene calendar | 11539 |
| Igbo calendar | 539–540 |
| Iranian calendar | 917–918 |
| Islamic calendar | 945–946 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 8 (天文８年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 1539 MDXXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3872 |
| Minguo calendar | 373 before ROC 民前373年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2082 |
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Year 1539 (MDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January – Battle of Naungyo, Burma, part of the Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War.
- January 12 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (and Charles I of Spain) and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Toledo, agreeing to make no further alliances with England. The treaty comes after Henry VIII of England's split with Rome and Pope Paul III.
- February 9 – First horse race held at Chester Racecourse, the oldest in use in England.
- March – Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
- May 30 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduces pigs into North America.
- May – The Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.[1]
July–December
- August 15 King Francis I of France issues the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêt that places the whole of France under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts and makes French the language of those courts and the official language of legal discourse.
- September 7 – Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs.
- October 4 – Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves.[2]
Undated
- Protestant Reformation
- Lutheranism is forcibly introduced into Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.
- Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, Newstead Abbey, St Albans Abbey, St Mary's Abbey, York and Hartland Abbey (the last) fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England.
- First edition of the Calvinist Genevan psalter is published.
- In Henan province, China, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse by a major epidemic outbreak of the plague.
- The first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City.[3]
Births
- April 5 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603)
- April 7 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss artist (d. 1584)
- October 2 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
- November 1 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
- December 5 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
- date unknown
- José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (d. 1590)
- Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (d. 1610)
- Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (d. 1578)
- Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (d. 1608)
- Humphrey Gilbert, English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier (d. 1583)
Deaths
- February 6 – John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)
- February 13 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- March 5 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
- March 12 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)
- April 17 – George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
- May 7 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- May 7 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
- July 5 – St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
- August – Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (b. 1480)
- September 8 – John Stokesley, English prelate (b. 1475)
- November 15 – Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
- December 20 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. c. 1506)
- date unknown – James Beaton, Scottish church leader (b. 1473)
References
- ↑ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1539". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 210–215. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ "The Press in Colonial America" (PDF). A Publisher’s History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
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