1532

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Year 1532 (MDXXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 22: São Vicente

May 13: Francisco Pizarro

January–June

• January 22 – São Vicente is established, as the first permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil.^[1]
• March 18 – The English Parliament bans payment by the English Church to Rome.
• April – Battle of Quipaipan in Peru: Atahualpa wins the civil war in the Inca Empire, defeating his brother Huáscar.
• May 13 – Francisco Pizarro lands on the northern coast of Peru.
• May 16 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• June 25 – Suleiman the Magnificent leads another invasion of Hungary.

July–December

• August 13 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
• September 1 – Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
• November 16 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca, ambushing and slaughtering a large number of his followers, without loss to themselves. He subsequently offers a ransom of approximately $100 million in gold.

Date unknown

• The Prince is published five years after the death of the author, Niccolò Machiavelli.
• Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais.
• Henry VIII of England grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter, to found Bristol Grammar School.
• Stamford School is founded by William Radcliffe.
• The Paris Parlement has the city's beggars arrested 'to force them to work in the sewers, chained together in pairs'.^[2]

Births

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

• January 21 – Ludwig Helmbold, German classical singer (d. 1598)
• February 14 – Richard Lowther, English soldier and official (d. 1607)
• February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the Pléiade (d. 1589)
• March 20 – Juan de Ribera, Spanish Catholic archbishop (d. 1611)
• March 25 – Pietro Pontio, Italian music theorist and composer (d. 1596)
• April 13 – Frederick of Denmark, Prince-bishop (d. 1556)
• April 21 – Martin Schalling the Younger, German theologian (d. 1608)
• April 23 – Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Prussia (d. 1568)
• April 24 – Thomas Lucy, English politician (d. 1600)
• June 6 – Giulio Antonio Santorio, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1602)
• June 7 – Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1560)
• June 13 – Countess Palatine Helena of Simmern, countess consort of Hanau-Münzenberg (1551-1561) (d. 1579)
• June 16 – Francis Coster, Brabantian Jesuit theologian, author (d. 1619)
• June 24
  • Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1588)
  • William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German Protestant leader (d. 1592)
• July 1 – Marino Grimani, Doge of Venice (d. 1605)
• July 12 – Mechthild of Bavaria, German duchess (d. 1565)
• July 25 – Alphonsus Rodriguez, Spanish Jesuit lay brother and saint (d. 1617)
• August 14 – Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Member of the House of Habsburg (d. 1590)
• October 4 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1596)
• October 30 – Yuri of Uglich, Prince of Uglich (d. 1563)
• November 16 – Clara of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Abbess of Gandersheim, later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1595)
• November 22 – Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (d. 1585)
• November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German poet and theologian (d. 1599)
• December 7 – Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (d. 1605)
• December 20
  • John Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (d. 1586)
  • Orazio Samacchini, Italian painter (d. 1577)
• December 26 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
• date unknown
  • Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (d. 1613)
  • William Allen, English cardinal (d. 1594)
  • Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (d. 1585)
  • Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (d. 1597)
  • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (d. 1592)
  • John Hawkins, English navigator (d. 1595)
  • Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (d. 1573)
  • Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1585)
  • Thomas Norton, English lawyer (d. 1584)
  • Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (d. 1588)
  • Tulsidas, medieval Hindi poet and philosopher (d. 1623)
  • Flavio Orsini, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1581)
• probable
  • Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian portrait painter (d. 1625)
  • Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (d. 1575)
  • Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (d. 1594)

Deaths

Pompeo Colonna

• May – Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex
• June – Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (b. 1482)
• June 28 – Pompeo Colonna, Catholic cardinal (b. 1479)
• August 11 – John of Denmark, Danish prince (b. 1518)
• August 16 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
• August 19 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German nun (b. 1467)
• August 22 – William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1450)
• September – Vlad VI Înecatul, Prince of Wallachia
• October 1 – Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter
• December 2 – Louis Gonzaga (Rodomonte), Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (b. 1500)
• December 3 – Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532 (b. 1502)
• December 11 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
• December 13 – Solomon Molcho, Portuguese mystic (b. 1500)
• December 30 – Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish noble (b. 1467)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Riccio, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1470)
  • Jeanne de la Font, French poet and culture patron (b. 1500)
  • Huáscar, 12th Inca Emperor

References