1534

Year '1534' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1534

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1534

January - June

★ February 27 - Group of Anabaptists of Jan Matthys seize Münster and declare it "The New Little Jerusalem" - they begin to exile dissenters and forcibly baptize all others.

★ 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.

July - December

★ July 7 - First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.

★ October 13 - Pope Paul III succeeds Pope Clement VII as the 220th pope.

Undated

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

★ Henry VIII angry at the Pope's refusal to grant divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Henry declares himself Supreme Head of the English church, the Church of England. See also: The derivative but more widely spread: Anglican Communion Church.

★ Publication of ''Gargantua'' made by François Rabelais.

★ Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament into German appears.

Births

★ February 5 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer, composer, and soldier (died 1612)

★ March 19 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Brazil (died 1597)

★ April 18 - William Harrison, English clergyman (died 1593)

★ June 15 - Henri I de Montmorency, Marshal of France (died 1614)

★ June 23 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (died 1582)

★ July 1 - King Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588)

★ July 18 - Zacharius Ursinus, German theologian (died 1583)

★ September 24 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 1590)

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★ Isaac Luria, Jewish scholar and mystic (died 1572)

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★ Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman of the Elizabethan era (died 1601)

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★ Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

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★ Paul Skalić, Croatian encyclopedist, humanist and adventurer (died 1573)

★ ''probable''

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★ Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noble lady (died 1570)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 9 - Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (born 1477)

★ January 25 - Magdalena of Saxony (born 1507)

★ March 5 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (born 1488)

★ April 20 - Elizabeth Barton English nun (executed) (born 1506)

★ August 9 - Thomas Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (born 1470)

★ September 25 - Pope Clement VII (born 1478)

★ December 27 - Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ István Báthory, Hungarian noble (born 1477)

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★ Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1474)

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★ Michael Glinski, Lithuanian prince (born c1470)

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★ Cesare Hercolani, Italian soldier (born 1499)

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★ William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, scholar and patron

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★ Amago Okihisa, Japanese nobleman

★ ''probable''

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★ Count of Nychlenborch, Dutch warrior and nobleman (born 1470)

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★ Antonio Pigafetta, Italian navigator (born 1491)

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★ John Taylor, Master of the Rolls (born 1480)
: ''See also .''