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Year '1537' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1537

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1537

January - June

★ 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.

July - December

★ August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed.

Undated

★ 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.

★ Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru.

★ Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.

★ The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.


★ Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway.

★ Dissolution of religious buildings by Henry VIII, including

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★ Bisham Priory,

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★ Bridlington Priory,

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★ Castle Acre Priory, and

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★ Valle Crucis Abbey.

★ Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.

★ First mention of Bangalore.

Births

★ January 1 - Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (died 1567)

★ March 4 - Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (died 1572)

★ May 20 - Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (died 1619)

★ June 28 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (died 1595)

★ July 20 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)

★ October 12 - King Edward VI of England (died 1553)

★ October 12 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (died 1554)

★ December 5 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (died 1597)

★ December 23 - King John III of Sweden (died 1592)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jane Lumley, English translator (died 1578)

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★ Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (died 1583)

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★ Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (died 1582)

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★ Saint John Almond (died 1585)
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Deaths

★ January 6

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★ Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (born 1510)

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★ Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)

★ January 12 - Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (born 1459)

★ February 3 - Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (born 1513) (executed)

★ February 8

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★ Otto von Pack, German conspirator (born c1480)

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★ Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (born 1481)

★ June 23 - Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (born 1487)

★ July 7 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1520)

★ September 4 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (born c1475)

★ October 24 - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (born c1507)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle

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★ Thomas Murner, German satirist (born 1475)

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★ Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (born 1502)

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★ Stefan Berislavić, the last Serb Despot and Medieval Serb monarch
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