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# 1539

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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s

Years: 1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 - 1539 - 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544

## [edit] Events

- May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold.
- Hernando de Soto introduces Pigs into North America
- May - 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation"
- September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
- Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jon Aresson.
- The town of Shuya was founded

## [edit] Births

- November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (died 1596)
- December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, theologian (died 1604)
- Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese Jewish explorer (died 1590)
- Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)
- Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (died 1568)
- Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (died 1610)
- Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (died 1578)
- Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (died 1608)

## [edit] Deaths

- February 6 - John III, Duke of Cleves, born 3 August 1491
- March 12 - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, diplomat, politician, and father of Anne Boleyn (born 1477)
- May 7 - Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
- May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
- July 5 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (born 1502)
- September 8 - John Stokesley, English prelate (born 1475)
- James Beaton, Scottish church leader
- Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (born 1480)
- Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
- George, Duke of Saxony (born 1471)
- Symeon Iwanowicz Trubczewski, governor of Kostroma
- Isabella d'Este, "First Lady of the Renaissance" (born 1474)

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