1535

This article is about the year 1535.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  – 1530s –  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1532 1533 1534 – 1535 – 1536 1537 1538

1535 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1535 MDXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2288
Armenian calendar	984 ԹՎ ՋՁԴ
Assyrian calendar	6285
Bengali calendar	942
Berber calendar	2485
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 8 – 27 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2079
Burmese calendar	897
Byzantine calendar	7043–7044
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4231 or 4171     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4232 or 4172
Coptic calendar	1251–1252
Discordian calendar	2701
Ethiopian calendar	1527–1528
Hebrew calendar	5295–5296
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1591–1592
- Shaka Samvat	1457–1458
- Kali Yuga	4636–4637
Holocene calendar	11535
Igbo calendar	535–536
Iranian calendar	913–914
Islamic calendar	941–942
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 4 (天文４年)
Julian calendar	1535 MDXXXV
Korean calendar	3868
Minguo calendar	377 before ROC 民前377年
Thai solar calendar	2077–2078

April: Jacques Cartier.

Solihull.

Year 1535 (MDXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 18 – Lima, Peru, is founded by Francisco Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes.
• February 27 – George Joye publishes his Apologye in Antwerp to clear his name from the accusations of William Tyndale.
• March – English forces under William Skeffington storm Maynooth Castle in Ireland, the stronghold of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare.
• March 10 – Fray Tomás de Berlanga discovers the Galápagos Islands when blown off course en route to Peru.
• May 4 – First of the English Carthusian Martyrs executed.
• May 10 – Amsterdam: A small troop of Anabaptists, led by the minister Jacob van Geel, attacks the city hall in an attempted coup to seize the city. In the counter-attack by the city's militia, the burgemeester, Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels. In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five woman walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands.
• May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage).
• May 20 – William Tyndale is arrested in Antwerp for heresy in relation to his Bible translation and imprisoned in Vilvoorde.
• June 1 – Conquest of Tunis by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, begins with the destruction of Barbarossa's fleet. Following eventual capture of the city from the Ottoman Empire, around 30,000 inhabitants are massacred.
• June 8 – Battle of Bornholm: Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy.
• June 22 – Execution of Cardinal John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to King Henry VIII of England.
• June 24 – Münster Rebellion: The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.

July–December

• July 6 – Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason after refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the English Church and separate from the Roman Catholic Church.
• October 2 – Jacques Cartier reaches the island in the Saint Lawrence River that eventually becomes Montreal.
• October 4 – The first complete English-language Bible is printed in Antwerp, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
• December – Manco Inca Yupanqui, nominally Sapa Inca, is imprisoned by the Spanish Conquistadors of Peru.

Date unknown

• Mughal Emperor Humayun gives battle to Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.
• Spanish forces abandon the second attempted conquest of Yucatán.
• The earliest printed book in Estonian, a Catechism with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg for use in Tallinn.
• Paracelsus visits Bad Pfäfers.

Births

• February 11 – Pope Gregory XIV (d. 1591)
• January 7 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Baron Stafford, English Baron (d. 1603)
• February 24 – Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, French noble (d. 1564)
• February 27 – Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (d. 1593)
• February 28 – Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer (d. 1578)
• March 4 – Benedict Pereira, Spanish theologian (d. 1610)
• March 10 – William of Rosenberg, High Treasurer and High Burgrave of Bohemia (d. 1592)
• March 23 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach, princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1587)
• May 31 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
• June 2 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
• June 18 – Jakub Krčín, Czech architect (d. 1604)
• June 21 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)
• June 24 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (d. 1573)
• July 4 – William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1592)
• July 21 – García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, Royal Governor of Chile (d. 1609)
• July 22 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
• August 21 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
• September 6 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612)
• September 18 – Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (d. 1551)
• October 16 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• November 9 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (d. 1600)
• December 12 – Gilbert Génébrard, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1597)
• December 28 – Martin Eisengrein, German theologian (d. 1578)
• date unknown
  • Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (d. 1594)
  • James Melville of Halhill, Scottish historian (d. 1617)
  • Thomas North, English translator (d. c. 1604)
  • Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (d. 1596)

Deaths

• February 18 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist and occult writer (b. 1486)
• February 28 – Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of Livonian Order (b. 1450)
• May 4 (executed by Henry VIII of England):
  • Saint John Houghton, Carthusian monk
  • Saint Robert Lawrence, Carthusian monk
  • Saint Augustine Webster, Prior of the London Charterhouse
  • Saint Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine monk of Syon
• June 22 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (b. c. 1469)
• July 6 – Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (b. 1478)
• July 11 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
• August 10 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
• September – George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny (b. 1469)
• September 23 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
• November 17 – Piero de Ponte, 45th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1462).
• December 31 – William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Jodocus Badius, pioneer of printing (b. 1462)
  • Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan (b. 1516)
  • Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer (b. 1470)
  • Feliks Zamoyski, Polish nobleman