1534

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years:	1531 1532 1533 - 1534 - 1535 1536 1537

1534 in topic:
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Year 1534 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1534

February 27 - Group of Anabaptists of Jan Matthys seize Münster and declare it "The New Little Jerusalem" - they begin to exile dissenters and forcibly baptize all others.

July 7 - First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.

Cambridge University Press is given Royal Charter by Henry VIII and becomes the first of the privileged presses.

Henry VIII angry at the Pope's refusal to grant divorce from Catherine of Aragon, Henry declares himself Supreme Head of the English church, the Church of England. See also: The derivative but more widely spread: Anglican Communion Church.

February 5 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer, composer, and soldier (died 1612)
March 19 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Brazil (died 1597)
April 18 - William Harrison, English clergyman (died 1593)
June 15 - Henri I de Montmorency, Marshal of France (died 1614)
June 23 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (died 1582)
July 1 - King Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588)
July 18 - Zacharius Ursinus, German theologian (died 1583)
September 24 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (died 1581)
date unknown
- Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 1590)
- Isaac Luria, Jewish scholar and mystic (died 1572)
- Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, statesman of the Elizabethan era (died 1601)
- Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- Paul Skalić, Croatian encyclopedist, humanist and adventurer (died 1573)
probable
- Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noble lady (died 1570)

See also Category: 1534 births.

January 9 - Johannes Aventinus, Bavarian historian and philologist (born 1477)
January 25 - Magdalena of Saxony (born 1507)
March 5 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (born 1488)
April 20 - Elizabeth Barton English nun (executed) (born 1506)
August 9 - Thomas Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (born 1470)
September 25 - Pope Clement VII (born 1478)
December 27 - Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Florentine architect (born 1453)
date unknown
- István Báthory, Hungarian noble (born 1477)
- Edward Guilford, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1474)
- Michael Glinski, Lithuanian prince (born c1470)
- Cesare Hercolani, Italian soldier (born 1499)
- William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, scholar and patron
- Amago Okihisa, Japanese nobleman
probable
- Antonio Pigafetta, Italian navigator (born 1491)
- John Taylor, Master of the Rolls (born 1480)

See also Category: 1534 deaths.