1541

This article is about the year 1541. For the disc drive, see Commodore 1541.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1538 1539 1540 – 1541 – 1542 1543 1544

1541 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1541 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1541 MDXLI
Ab urbe condita	2294
Armenian calendar	990 ԹՎ ՋՂ
Assyrian calendar	6291
Bahá'í calendar	-303–-302
Bengali calendar	948
Berber calendar	2491
English Regnal year	32 Hen. 8 – 33 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2085
Burmese calendar	903
Byzantine calendar	7049–7050
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月初五日 (4177/4237-12-5) — to — 辛丑年十二月十五日 (4178/4238-12-15)
Coptic calendar	1257–1258
Ethiopian calendar	1533–1534
Hebrew calendar	5301–5302
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1597–1598
- Shaka Samvat	1463–1464
- Kali Yuga	4642–4643
Holocene calendar	11541
Iranian calendar	919–920
Islamic calendar	947–948
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 10 (天文10年)
Korean calendar	3874
Minguo calendar	371 before ROC 民前371年
Thai solar calendar	2084

April 7: Voyage of Francis Xavier.

May 8: De Soto at Mississippi River.

Jerusalem: Golden Gate.

Year 1541 (MDXLI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 12 – Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.
• April 7 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
• April 24 – Battle of Sahart: The Emperor of Ethiopia defeated an attack by the forces of Imam Ahmad Gragn.
• May 8 – Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River, naming it the Rio de Espiritu Santo ("River of the Holy Spirit").
• May 23 – Jacques Cartier departs from Saint-Malo, France on his third voyage.

July–December

• July 9 – Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia to defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, who has invaded his Empire.
• August 29 – The Janissaries of Suleiman the Magnificent take Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as visitors.
• October – An Algerian military campaign by Charles V of Spain (Habsburg) is unsuccessful.

Date unknown

• The Portuguese defeat the Muslims near Lake Tana.
• Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent seals off The Golden Gate in Jerusalem.
• The Parliament of Ireland declares Henry VIII of England King of Ireland, replacing the Lordship of Ireland with the Kingdom of Ireland.
• Iceland adopts the Lutheran faith.
• Gerardus Mercator makes his first globe.
• The first official translation of the entire Bible into Swedish is made.
• Elia Levita's chivalric romance, the Bovo-Bukh, is first printed, the earliest published secular work in Yiddish.

Births

• January 26 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (died 1596)
• March 25 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1587)
• April 8 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (died 1593)
• September 7 – Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish musician (died 1602)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Charron, French philosopher (died 1603)
  • Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)
  • El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (died 1614)
  • Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (died 1579)
  • Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (died 1600)
  • Guðbrandur Þorláksson, mathematician (died 1627)
  • Hattori Hanzō, Ninja who served under Tokugawa Ieyasu (died 1596)

Deaths

• April – Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (born 1480)
• May 27 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (executed) (born 1473)
• June 26 – Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador (born c. 1475)
• July 4 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (born 1495)
• August 1 – Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (born 1493)
• September 24 – Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist and physician (born 1493)
• November – Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, German reformer (born 1478)
• November 24 – Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
• December 10 – Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (executed)
• December 24 – Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer (born 1486)
• date unknown
  • Jean Clouet, French miniature painter
  • Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (born 1480)
  • Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama (born 1474)
  • Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord
  • Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)