1541

Year '1541' (MDXLI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1541

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1541

January - June

★ February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.

★ April 7 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

★ April 24 - The Battle of Sahart was fought between the army of Ethiopian Emperor and forces of Imam Ahmad Gragn.

★ May 8 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River, naming it the Rio de Espiritu Santo ("River of Holy Spirit").

★ May 23 - Jacques Cartier departs Saint-Malo France on his third voyage.

★ The first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish is made.

July - December

★ July 9 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlockmen and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.

★ August 29 - The Janissaries of Suleiman the Magnificent take Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as visitors.



★ October - The unsuccessful Algerian campaign of Charles V of Spain Habsburg.

Undated

★ Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent seals off The Golden Gate in Jerusalem.

★ The Parliament of Ireland declares Henry VIII of England King of Ireland replacing the Lordship of Ireland with the Kingdom of Ireland.

★ Iceland adopts the Lutheran faith.

★ Gerardus Mercator made his first globe.

Births

★ January 26 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)

★ March 25 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1587)

★ April 8 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (died 1593)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Pierre Charron, French philosopher (died 1603)

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★ Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)

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★ El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (died 1614)

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★ Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (died 1579)

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★ Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (died 1600)

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★ Guðbrandur Þorláksson, mathematician (died 1627)

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★ Hattori Hanzō, Ninja who served under Tokugawa Ieyasu (died 1596)

Deaths

★ April - Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (born 1480)

★ May 27 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (executed) (born 1473)

★ June 26 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador (born c)

★ July 4 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (born 1495)

★ August 1 - Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (born 1493)

★ September 24 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)

★ November - Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, German reformer (born 1478)

★ November 24 - Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)

★ December 10 - Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (executed)

★ December 24 - Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer (born 1486)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jean Clouet, French miniature painter

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★ Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (born 1480)

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★ Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama (born 1474)

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★ Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord

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★ Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)