Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s
Years: 1531 1532 1533 1534 1535 - 1536 - 1537 1538 1539 1540 1541
Events 2 February - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wales is united with England by an Act of Union Manco II revolts from Spanish rule in Peru Resumption of war between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin. Protestantism introduced in Denmark Portuguese Crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies. Births March - Pope Clement VIII 26 December - the Confucian scholar Yi I (Yulgok) of Joseon Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese shogun Marriages 30 May - Henry VIII of England and Jane Seymour. Deaths 7 January - Catherine of Aragon (wife of Henry VIII of England). 19 May - Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry VIII of England). 12 July - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher September 25 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet William Tyndale, Protestant martyr and scholar, is burned at the stake for heresy.
