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Calendar year
March :
Canterbury Cathedral surrenders.
Year 1539 (
MDXXXIX ) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–June
January –
Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War –
Battle of Naungyo ,
Burma : The Toungoos decisively defeat the Hanthawaddys.
January 12 –
Treaty of Toledo :
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (and
Charles I of Spain ) and
Francis I of France agree to make no further alliances with
England . The treaty comes after
Henry VIII of England 's
split with Rome and
Pope Paul III .
January 14 – Spain annexes
Cuba .
February 9 – The first horse race is held at
Chester Racecourse , the oldest in use in
England .
[1]
March –
Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
May 30 –
Hernando de Soto lands at
Tampa Bay ,
Florida with 600 soldiers, with the goal of finding
gold . He also introduces
pigs into
North America .
May – The
Six Articles , an
Act of the
Parliament of England , reaffirms certain
Catholic principles in
Henry VIII 's
Church of England .
[2]
June 26 –
Battle of Chausa in modern-day
Buxar ,
India :
Sher Shah Suri defeats the
Mughal emperor,
Humayun (Sher Shah goes on to form the
Sur Empire , and take control of nearly all Mughal territory).
July–December
Undated
Births
Franciscus Raphelengius
January 28 –
Nicolò Donato , Doge of Venice (d.
1618 )
February 13 –
Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine by marriage (1576-1582) (d.
1582 )
February 23
February 27 –
Franciscus Raphelengius , Dutch printer (d.
1597 )
March 5 –
Christoph Pezel , German theologian (d.
1604 )
March 18 –
Maria of Nassau , Countess of Nassau (d.
1599 )
April 5 –
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d.
1603 )
April 6 –
Amalia of Neuenahr , German noble (d.
1602 )
April 7
April 30 –
Archduchess Barbara of Austria , Austrian archduchess (d.
1572 )
May 22 –
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (d.
1621 )
May 29 –
Thomas Pounde , English Jesuit lay brother (d.
1613 )
June 6 –
Catherine Vasa , Regent of East Frisia (1599-1610) (d.
1610 )
June 13 –
Jost Amman , Swiss printmaker (d.
1591 )
June 23 –
William Darrell of Littlecote , English politician (d.
1589 )
July 4 –
Louis VI, Elector Palatine (d.
1583 )
September 18 –
Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers , Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (d.
1595 )
October 1 –
Peter Vok , Czech noble (d.
1611 )
November 1 –
Pierre Pithou , French lawyer and scholar (d.
1596 )
December 5 –
Fausto Paolo Sozzini , Italian theologian (d.
1604 )
December 20 –
Paulus Melissus , German composer (d.
1602 )
December 31 –
John Radcliffe , English politician (d.
1568 )
date unknown
Deaths
Isabella d'Este
Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria
January 24 –
Anneke Esaiasdochter , Dutch Anabaptist writer (b.
1509 )
February –
Narapati of Prome , king of
Prome in Burma.
February 6 –
John III, Duke of Cleves (b.
1491 )
February 13 –
Isabella d'Este , Marquise of Mantua (b.
1474 )
[6]
March 5 –
Nuno da Cunha , Portuguese governor in India (b.
1487 )
March 12 –
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire , English diplomat and politician (b.
1477 )
March 19 –
Lord Edmund Howard , English nobleman (b. c.
1478 ))
April 17 –
George, Duke of Saxony (b.
1471 )
April 19 –
Katarzyna Weiglowa , Jewish martyr (b.
1460 )
April 30 –
John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath , English noble (b.
1470 )
May 1 –
Isabella of Portugal , Holy Roman Empress (b.
1503 )
[7]
May 7 –
Ottaviano Petrucci , Italian printer (b.
1466 )
May 7 or
September 22 –
Guru Nanak , founder of Sikhism (b.
1469 )
June 20 –
Philip III, Count of Waldeck -Eisenberg (1524–1539) (b.
1486 )
July 5 –
St Anthony Maria Zaccaria , Italian saint (b.
1502 )
July 9 –
Adrian Fortescue , English Roman Catholic martyr (b.
1476 )
August –
Vannoccio Biringuccio , Italian metallurgist (b.
1480 )
September 8 –
John Stokesley , English prelate (b.
1475 )
[8]
November 14 –
Hugh Cook Faringdon , English Abbot of Reading
December 12 –
Bartolomeo degli Organi , Italian musician (b.
1474 )
December 20 –
Johannes Lupi , Flemish composer (b. c.
1506 )
date unknown
References
^ Paul Hurley (May 15, 2016).
Chester History Tour . Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 2.
ISBN
978-1-4456-5704-2 .
^ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1539". The People's Chronology . Thomson Gale.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
210–215 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Coppack, Glyn (2009). Fountains Abbey . Amberley. pp. 11, 130.
ISBN
978-1-84868-418-8 .
^
"The Press in Colonial America" (PDF) . A Publisher’s History of American Magazines — Background and Beginnings . Archived from
the original (PDF) on June 27, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2013 .
^ Frieda, Leonie (2013). The deadly sisterhood : a story of women, power and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527 (Paperback ed.). London: Phoenix. p. 358.
ISBN
978-0-7538-2844-1 .
^
"Isabella of Portugal" . www.ngv.vic.gov.au . Retrieved October 24, 2020 .
^
"Stokesley, John (1475–1539), bishop of London" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/26563 .
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved October 26, 2021 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)