1532

Year '1532' was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1532

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1532

January - June

★ May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

★ June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.

July - December

★ September 1 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England.

★ November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.

Undated

★ Atahualpa wins Inca civil war over Huáscar.

★ ''The Prince'' is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavelli.

★ ''Pantagruel'' is published by François Rabelais.

★ Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.

Births

★ February 19 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the ''Pléiade'' (died 1589)

★ June 24

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★ Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1588)

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★ William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German Protestant leader (died 1592)

★ December 26 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (died 1576)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (died 1613)

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★ William Cardinal Allen, English cardinal (died 1594)

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★ Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (died 1585)

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★ Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (died 1597)

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★ Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (died 1602)

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★ John Hawkins, English navigator (died 1595)

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★ Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (died 1573)

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★ Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (died 1585)

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★ Thomas Norton, English lawyer (died 1584)

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★ Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (died 1588)

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★ Richard Topcliffe, notorious English torturer and sadist (died 1604)

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★ Tulsidas, medieval Hindi poet and philosopher (died 1623)

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★ Flavio Orsini, Italian cardinal (died 1581)

★ ''probable''

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★ Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian portrait painter (died 1625)

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★ Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (died 1575)

Deaths

★ January 31 - Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (born 1460)

★ May - Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex

★ August 16 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)

★ August 22 - William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1450)

★ September - Vlad Înecatul, Prince of Wallachia

★ October 1 - Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter

★ December 11 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1455)

★ December 30 - Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish noble (born 1467)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Andrea Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1470)

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★ Huáscar, 12^th Inca Emperor

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★ Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (born 1482)
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