1537

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years:	1534 1535 1536 1537 1538 1539 1540

1537 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1537 MDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2290
Armenian calendar	986 ԹՎ ՋՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	6287
Balinese saka calendar	1458–1459
Bengali calendar	944
Berber calendar	2487
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 8 – 29 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2081
Burmese calendar	899
Byzantine calendar	7045–7046
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4234 or 4027     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4235 or 4028
Coptic calendar	1253–1254
Discordian calendar	2703
Ethiopian calendar	1529–1530
Hebrew calendar	5297–5298
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1593–1594
- Shaka Samvat	1458–1459
- Kali Yuga	4637–4638
Holocene calendar	11537
Igbo calendar	537–538
Iranian calendar	915–916
Islamic calendar	943–944
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 6 (天文６年)
Javanese calendar	1455–1456
Julian calendar	1537 MDXXXVII
Korean calendar	3870
Minguo calendar	375 before ROC 民前375年
Nanakshahi calendar	69
Thai solar calendar	2079–2080
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1663 or 1282 or 510     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1664 or 1283 or 511

Potatoes are introduced in Europe.

Year 1537 (MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January – Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England, is crushed.
• January 6 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, is assassinated.
• March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.
• March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese, in Brazil.
• April 1 – The Archbishop of Norway Olav Engelbrektsson flees from Trondheim to Lier, Belgium.
• June 2 – Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls, who must not be enslaved or robbed.
• June 23 – Siege of Hamar ends with the arrest of Bishop Mogens Lauritssøn, and the Catholic rebellion is definitively ended in Norway

July–December

• August 15 – Asunción is founded by Juan de Salazar de Espinosa.
• August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
• August&ndashSeptember – The Ottomans fail to capture Corfu.

Date unknown

• Manco Cápac establishes the independent Neo-Inca State, at Vilcabamba, Peru.
• The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
• Kiritimati (Acea or "Christmas Island") is discovered by the Spanish expedition of Hernando de Grijalva.
• The islands of Paros and Ios is conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
• Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII of England, including
  • Bridlington Priory,
  • Castle Acre Priory,
  • Valle Crucis Abbey, and
  • Bisham Priory (Bisham Abbey being founded in its place).
• Bangalore is first mentioned.

Births

Willem IV van den Bergh

• January 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567)
• January 16 – Albrecht VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1605)
• January 21 – Antonio Maria Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1602)
• February 26 – Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (d. 1575)
• March 4 – Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572)
• May 18 – Guido Luca Ferrero, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1585)
• May 20 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)
• May 27 – Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, son of Landgrave Philip I (d. 1604)
• May 28 or May 31 – Shah Ismail II of Persia (d. 1577)
• June 3 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (d. 1554)
• July 20 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
• July 29 – Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (d. 1590)
• July 30 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (d. 1592)
• August 9 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician (d. 1604)
• August 15 – Shimazu Toshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1592)
• October 12 – King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
• December 5 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597)
• December 20 – King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
• December 24 – Willem IV van den Bergh, Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen (d. 1586)
• December 26 – Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1593)
• date unknown
  • Jane Lumley, English translator (d. 1578)
  • Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
  • Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (d. 1582)
  • John Almond, English Cistercian monk (d. 1585)
  • Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (d. 1554)

Deaths

Saint Gerolamo Emiliani

Pedro de Mendoza

• January 6
  • Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
  • Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• January 12 – Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1459)
• February 2 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (b. 1499)
• February 3 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (executed) (b. 1513)
• February 8
  • Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480)
  • Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481)
• January 11 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, German prince (b. 1498)
• March 25 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme, French noble (b. 1489)
• March 28 – Francesco of Saluzzo, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1498)
• May 10 – Andrzej Krzycki, Polish archbishop (b. 1482)
• May 24 – Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, German princess (b. 1485)
• June 2 – Francis Bigod, British noble (b. 1507)
• June 23 – Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
• June 29 – Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1502)
• July 7 – Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
• July 12 – Robert Aske (executed) (b. 1500)
• September 4 – Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
• September 7 – Nikolaus von Schönberg, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1472)
• September 20 – Pavle Bakić, last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch
• October 24 – Jane Seymour, Third Queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1508)
• December 11 – Andrey of Staritsa, son of Ivan III of Russia the Great (b. 1490)
• date unknown – John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
• probable – Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)