1535

Year 1535 (MDXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 18 – Lima, Peru, is founded by Francisco Pizarro, as Ciudad de los Reyes.^[1]
• February 27 – George Joye publishes his Apologye in Antwerp, to clear his name from the accusations of William Tyndale.
• March – English forces under William Skeffington storm Maynooth Castle in Ireland, the stronghold of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare.^[2]
• Fray Tomás de Berlanga discovers the Galápagos Islands, when blown off course en route to Peru
  .
• May 4 – The first of the English Carthusian Martyrs is executed.
• burgemeester, Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels.^[3]
  In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five women walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands.
• Chief Donnacona
  's two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage).
• May 20 – William Tyndale is arrested in Antwerp for heresy, in relation to his Bible translation,^[4] and imprisoned in Vilvoorde.
• June 1 – The Conquest of Tunis by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, begins with the destruction of Barbarossa's fleet. Following the eventual capture of the city from the Ottoman Empire, around 30,000 inhabitants are massacred.
• June 8 – Battle of Bornholm: Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy.
• Henry VIII of England.^[5]
• Anabaptist state of Münster
  is conquered and disbanded.

• Roman Catholic Church.^[2]
• Henry VIII
  for heresy.
• Saint Lawrence River, that eventually becomes Montreal
  .
• October 4 – The first complete English-language Bible is printed in Antwerp, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
• December – Manco Inca Yupanqui, nominally Sapa Inca, is imprisoned by the Spanish Conquistadors of Peru.

Date unknown

• Mughal Emperor Humayun gives battle to Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.
• Spanish forces abandon the second attempted conquest of Yucatán.
• The
  Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, for use in Tallinn.^[6]
• Suleiman the Magnificent begins the rebuilding of the walls around Jerusalem.^[7]

Births

• February 11 – Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)^[8]
• January 7 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Baron Stafford, English baron (d. 1603)
• Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, French noble (d. 1564
  )
• February 27 – Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (d. 1593)
• February 28 – Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer (d. 1578)
• March 10 – William of Rosenberg, High Treasurer and High Burgrave of Bohemia (d. 1592)
• March 23 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach, princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1587)
• May 31 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
• June 2 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)^[9]
• June 18 – Jakub Krčín, Czech architect (d. 1604)
• June 21 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
• June 24 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (d. 1573)
• William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1592
  )
• July 21 – García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, Royal Governor of Chile (d. 1609)
• Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621
  )
• August 21 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
• September 6 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
• September 18 – Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1551)
• October 16 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• November 9 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (d. 1600)
• December 12 – Gilbert Génébrard, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1597)
• December 28 – Martin Eisengrein, German theologian (d. 1578)
• date unknown
  • Federico Barocci, Italian painter (d. 1612)
  • Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (d. 1594)
  • James Melville of Halhill, Scottish historian (d. 1617)
  • Thomas North, English translator (d. c. 1604)
  • Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (d. 1596)
  • Benedict Pereira, Spanish theologian (d. 1610)

Deaths

• February 18 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist and occult writer (b. 1486)
• February 28 – Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of the Livonian Order (b. 1450)
• April 4 – Beatrix of Baden, Margravine of Baden, Countess Palatine consort of Simmern (b. 1492)
• Henry VIII of England
  ):
  • Saint John Houghton, Carthusian monk
  • Saint Robert Lawrence, Carthusian monk
  • Saint Augustine Webster, Prior of the London Charterhouse
  • Saint Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine monk of Syon
• May 26 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet (b. 1497)
• June 12 – Elisabeth Wandscherer, Dutch Anabaptist
• June 19 – Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (b. 1500)
• June 22 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (b. c. 1469)
• July 6 – Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (b. 1478)^[10]
• July 11 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
• August 10 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
• September – George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny (b. 1469)
• Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513
  )
• November 17 – Piero de Ponte, 45th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1462)
• December 29 – Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1511)
• December 31 – William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Jodocus Badius, Flemish pioneer of printing (b. 1462)
  • Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan (b. 1516
    )
  • Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer (b. 1470)
  • Feliks Zamoyski, Polish noble

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