1542
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This article is about the year 1542.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1510s 1520s 1530s – 1540s – 1550s 1560s 1570s |
| Years: | 1539 1540 1541 – 1542 – 1543 1544 1545 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1542 MDXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2295 |
| Armenian calendar | 991 ԹՎ ՋՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6292 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -302–-301 |
| Bengali calendar | 949 |
| Berber calendar | 2492 |
| English Regnal year | 33 Hen. 8 – 34 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2086 |
| Burmese calendar | 904 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7050–7051 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年十二月十六日 (4178/4238-12-16) — to —
壬寅年十一月廿五日(4179/4239-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 1258–1259 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1534–1535 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5302–5303 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1598–1599 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1464–1465 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4643–4644 |
| Holocene calendar | 11542 |
| Iranian calendar | 920–921 |
| Islamic calendar | 948–949 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 11 (天文11年) |
| Julian calendar | 1542 MDXLII |
| Korean calendar | 3875 |
| Minguo calendar | 370 before ROC 民前370年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2085 |
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Year 1542 (MDXLII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- February 2 – Battle of Baçente: The Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia.
- February 13 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- February 14 – Guadalajara, Mexico, is founded by the Spaniards after 3 previous attempts failed, due to aggressive opposition from local tribes.
- March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
- April 4–April 16 – Ethiopia – Battle of Jarte: The Portuguese under Christovão da Gama encounter the army of Imam Ahmad Gragn and inflict upon him two successive defeats.
- June 27 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers California and claims it for Spain.
[edit] July–December
- July 12 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor declares war on King Francis I of France. This time King Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.
- August – Battle of the Hill of the Jews: During the rainy season, Christovão da Gama captures a strategic position and many badly needed horses.
- August 24 – Battle of Haddon Rig: Scotland defeats England.
- August 27 – Advice and citizenry of Hildesheim (Germany) profess themselves to the Lutheran teachings. As a pledge owner, the city Hildesheim provides for the execution of the Reformation in the city and office of Peine. The priests from the localities of Clauen, Hohenhameln, Sossmar, Schmedenstedt, Lengede and Rosenthal[disambiguation needed
] resume their offices in the sense of the Reformation. - August 28 – Ethiopia – Battle of Wofla: Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp. The Portuguese are scattered; Christovão da Gama is captured and executed.
- September 4 – Earliest recorded Preston Guild Court in current sequence
- September 28 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo lands in what is now San Diego Bay and named it "San Miguel", which will later become San Diego.
- November 24 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army invades Scotland and defeats a Scottish army.
- December 14 – Queen Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes queen at the age of only one week.
[edit] Date unknown
- The first contact of Japan with the West occurs when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, lands Fernão Mendes Pinto, Diogo Zeimoto and Cristovão Borralho in Japan.
- Pope Paul III establishes the Holy Office with jurisdiction over the Roman Inquisition.
[edit] Births
- March 19 – Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1605)
- June 6 – Richard Grenville, Elizabethan soldier and explorer (died 1591)
- June 24 – St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
- October 4 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (died 1621)
- October 14 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (died 1605)
- December 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (died 1587)
- date unknown
- Toda Kazuaki, samurai in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu (died 1604)
- John Speed, English historian (died 1629)
- Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese daimyo (died 1611)
- Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (died 1600)
- Juan de la Cruz, Spanish saint and poet (died 1591)
[edit] Deaths
- February – Nikolaus Federmann, German adventurer in Venezuela and Colombia (born 1501)
- February 1 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (born 1480)
- February 13 – Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (born c. 1522)
- March 3 – Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England
- May 21 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer, navigator and conquistador (born c. 1500)
- June 19 – Leo Jud, Swiss reformer (born 1482)
- July 15 – Lisa del Giocondo, believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa
- August 24 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (born 1483)
- August 29 – Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
- September 21 – Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet (born c. 1490)
- October 11 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet and diplomat (born 1503)
- December 14 – King James V of Scotland (born 1512)
- date unknown
- Dosso Dossi, Italian painter (born 1490)
- Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician (born c. 1474)
- Lapu-Lapu, Filipino warrior (born 1491)
