1539 - Definition and Overview

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