Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s 1580s 1590s

Years: 1532 1533 1534 1535 1536 - 1537 - 1538 1539 1540 1541 1542

• October 12 - Prince Edward Tudor, later King Edward VI of England.
• October 12? - Lady Jane Grey, later Queen of England.
• December 24 - Prince John Vasa, later King John III of Sweden

• October 24 - Jane Seymour , Queen-consort of King Henry VIII of England dies after complications in childbirth

• Pope Paul III published the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declared the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls who must not be enslaved or robbed.
• Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru
• Recife is founded by the portuguese in Brazil.\n