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Year 1539 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1539

January - June

January 12, Treaty of Toledo. Signed by Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor, Spanish King) and Francis I (French King), agreeing to make no further alliances with England. Grew out of the disagreement between Pope Paul III and Henry VIII.
March - Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
April 27 - Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduces pigs into North America.
May - The Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.

July - December

September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves.

September 7 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikhs.

Undated

Protestant Reformation: Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.

Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, St Albans Abbey and St Mary's Abbey, York fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

In a worse scenario than in 1531, when there was just a drought and locusts killing off the populace through starvation and cannibalism, this year in Henan province, China, during the Ming Dynasty, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse by a large epidemic outbreak of the plague.

Francis I of France issues an ordinance that places the whole of France under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts and makes French the language of those courts.

Horse Racing began at Chester

Births

April 5 - George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603)

April 7 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss artist (d. 1584)

October 2 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)

November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)

December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)

date unknown

José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (d. 1590)
Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (d. 1610)
Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (d. 1578)
Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (d. 1608)

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Deaths

February 6 - John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)

February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)

March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)

March 12 - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)

April 17 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)

May 7 - Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)

May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)

July 5 - St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)

August - Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (b. 1480)

September 8 - John Stokesley, English prelate (b. 1475)

November 15 - Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading

December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. c. 1539)

date unknown

James Beaton, Scottish church leader (b. 1473)

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