1538

Year '1538' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1538

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1538

January - June

★ February 24 - Treaty of Nagyvárad: Peace between King Ferdinand and the Turks. John Zapolya is recognized as King of Hungary, while Ferdinand retains the northern and western parts of the Kingdom, and is recognized as heir to the throne.

★ April 26 - Battle of Las Salinas, where Almagro was defeated by Francisco Pizarro, who then seized Cuzco.

★ June 18 - Truce of Nice - Peace between Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France.

July - December

★ August 6 - Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

★ September 28 - The naval Battle of Preveza where the Turkish fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent under the command of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha defeated the Holy League of Emperor Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria.

★ October 28 - The first University of the New World is founded the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino.

★ November 30 - Sucre, Bolivia is founded under the name ''Ciudad de la Plata de la Nueva Toledo''.

★ November 30 - Byland Abbey is dissolved.

Undated

★ Michelangelo starts work on the ''Piazza del Campidoglio'' (Capitoline Hill).

★ Bisham Abbey dissolved.

Births

★ January 10 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)

★ January 15 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1599)

★ March 25 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1612)

★ April 26 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)

★ August 12 - Maria of Portugal (died 1577)

★ October 2 - Saint Charles Borromeo, saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1584)

★ October 31 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (died 1607)

★ November 16 - Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (died 1606)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ François de Bar, French scholar (died 1606)

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★ Diane de France, illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France (died 1619)

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★ Kitsuno, concubine of Japanese daimyo (died 1566)

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★ Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (died 1568)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 8 - Beatrice, Duchess of Savoy (born 1504)

★ February 12 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter (born c1480)

★ April 4 - Elena Glinskaya, Regent of Russia

★ May 8 - Edward Fox, English churchman (born 1496)

★ May 22 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (born 1471)

★ June 30 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)

★ July 8 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (born 1475)

★ September 14 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, Baron of Breda (b. 1483)

★ October 20 - Francesco Maria I della Rovere, condottiero (b. 1490)

★ November 22 - John Lambert, English Protestant martyr (burned at stake)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born 1480)

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★ Pierre Gringore, French poet and playwright (born 1475)
: ''See also .''