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

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Events of 1535

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1535

January - June

★ January 18 - Lima, Peru found by Francisco Pizarro.

★ April - Jacques Cartier lands near the Iroquois city of Stadacona, Canada (now Quebec) and in May, the even greater Huron city of Hochelaga.

★ May 19 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's 2 sons (who Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage).

★ June 24 - The Anabaptist state of Münster (see Münster Rebellion) is conquered and disbanded.

July - December

★ July 6 - Sir Thomas More, author of ''Utopia'' and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henrys' decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.

★ October 2 - Jacques Cartier reaches the area (island) in the St. Lawrence River that eventually became Montreal, Quebec.

★ October 4 - The first complete English-language Bible is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

Undated

★ Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy.


★ Manco II appointed puppet Inca Emperor by Spanish Conquistadors.

★ Second unsuccessful attempt by Spanish forces to conquer Yucatan.

★ Carlos Quinto conquers Tunis.

★ Anabaptist rebellion in some cities in the Netherlands, including a famous incident of seven men and five woman walking nude in the streets of Amsterdam.

★ First book in Estonian - ''Wanradt's and Koell's catechism'' is written.

★ St Alphege Church is completed in Solihull, England.

★ The Charterhouse London is closed, as part of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Births

★ February 11 - Pope Gregory XIV (died 1591)

★ May 31 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (died 1607)

★ June 2 - Pope Leo XI (died 1605)

★ June 21 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)

★ July 22 - Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1621)

★ August 21 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1619)

★ September 6 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (died 1612)

★ October 16 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (died 1585)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ James Melville of Halhill, Scottish historian (died 1617)

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★ Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (died 1596)

★ ''probable''

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★ Thomas North, English translator (died 1601)
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Deaths

★ February 18 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist and occult writer (born 1486)

★ February 28 - Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of Livonian Order (born 1450)

★ May 4 - Saint John Houghton, Saint Robert Lawrence, Saint Augustine Webster, Prior and monks of the London Charterhouse, along with Saint Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine monk of Syon (executed)

★ June 22 - John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (born c1469)

★ July 6 - Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (born 1478)

★ July 11 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (born 1484)

★ August 10 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (born 1509)

★ September - George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny (born 1469)

★ September 23 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born 1513)

★ December 31 - William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1465)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jodocus Badius, pioneer of printing (born 1462)

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★ Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan (born 1516)

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★ Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer (born 1470)

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★ Feliks Zamoyski, Polish nobleman
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