Years: 1536 1537 1538 - 1539 - 1540 1541 1542

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold.
• Hernando de Soto introduced Pigs into North America
• May - 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation"
• September 4 - Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
• Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jon Aresson.

Births

Deaths

• March 12 - Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat (or 1538).
• Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism

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