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1532

In this year of history...

May 13 – Francisco Pizarro lands on the northern coast of Peru.
March 18 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
May 16 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
June 23 - Henry VIII and Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V
June 25 – Suleiman the Magnificent leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.
November 15 Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
November 16 Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca

Date unknown, but year known:

"The Prince" is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavelli. <-- fantastic book btw.
Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.
 
1534

In this year of world history...

February 27 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster in Westphalia and declare it "The New Jerusalem" as they begin to exile dissenters and forcibly baptize all others.

April 5 – On Easter Sunday, Anabaptist Jan Matthys is killed by the Landsknechte, who lay siege to Münster on the day he predicted as The Second Coming of Christ. His follower John of Leiden takes control of the city.

May 10 – Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland while searching for the Northwest Passage.

June 9 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.

June 23 – Copenhagen opens its gates to Count Christopher of Oldenburg leading the army of Lübeck (and the Hanseatic League), nominally in the interests of the deposed King Christian II of Denmark. The surrenders of Copenhagen and, a few days later, of Malmö represent the high point of the Count's War for the forces of the League. These victories presumably led the Danish nobility to recognize Christian III as King on July 4.

Date unknown, but happened in 1534 A.D.

Cambridge University Press is given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII and becomes the first of the privileged presses.

Henry VIII, angry at the Pope's refusal to grant him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, declares himself Supreme Head of the English church, the Church of England (see also: The derivative but more widely spread: Anglican Communion Church). The Supremacy Act is published.

The Act for the Submission of the Clergy requires English churchmen to submit to the king, and forbids the publication of ecclesiastical laws without royal permission.

Gargantua is published by François Rabelais.

Martin Luther's translation of the complete Christian Bible into German appears. He had already published the New Testament in 1522.
 
MissScyth said:
^awesome, mega your so full of important and interesting information. Its like a history lesson but more fun. You make history fun.

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It's nice how that lesson showed contextual, related events occurring throughout that year.

History is nothing without context!
 
1537

In this year of world history...

January – Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England
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.
March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
June 2 – 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.

August 15 – Asunción is founded by Juan de Salazar y Espinoza. It's the oldest city in South America.
August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

Date Unknown, but year known:

Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru.
The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
The island of Paros is conquered by the Ottoman Empire
Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway.
Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII, including Bisham Priory, Bridlington Priory, Castle Acre Priory, and Valle Crucis Abbey.
Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.
Bangalore is first mentioned.
 
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