1542
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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years: 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541 - 1542 - 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547
[edit] Events
- December 14 - Accession of Mary I, Queen of Scotland
[edit] Births
- June 6 - Richard Grenville, Elizabethan sailor (died 1591)
- June 24 - St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
- October 15 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, ruler of the Mughal Empire (died 1605)
- December 8 - Queen Mary I of Scotland (died 1587)
- Robert Bellarmine, Catholic theologian and saint (died 1621)
- Toda Kazuaki, samurai in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu (died 1604)
- Anthony Shirley, English traveller (died 1635)
- John Speed, historian (died 1629)
- Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese daimyo (died 1611)
- Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander
- Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1605)
[edit] Deaths
- February 13 - Katherine Howard, Queen of England
- December 14 - James V, King of Scotland
