1535 CE

In Amsterdam, a small troop of Anabaptists, led by the minister Jacob van Geel, attacks the city hall, in an attempted coup to seize the city. In the counter-attack by the city's militia, the burgemeester, Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels. In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five women walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands. The Conquest of Tunis by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, begins with the destruction of Barbarossa's fleet. Following the eventual capture of the city from the Ottoman Empire, around 30,000 inhabitants are massacred. Jakob Hutter, leader of the Hutterites is arrested along with his wife in Klausen in the Tyrol region on the Italian side of the Alps. The two are taken to the prison at the fortress in Bronzolo.

In the 1530s, the 16th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • January 13 – A statute of the Parlement of Paris is enacted forbidding all printing under threat of hanging and closing all bookshops, although it is quickly abandoned.Francesource
  • March 29 – (Tenbun 4, 26th day of 2nd month) Go-Nara, who has ruled since 1526 is formally installed as the 105th Emperor of Japansource
  • July – Lord Leonard Grey arrives from England as Lord Deputy of Ireland.Irelandsource
  • November 14 – Spanish colonial administrator Antonio de Mendoza is appointed as the first Viceroy of New Spain, with jurisdiction on behalf of King Carlos of Spain over a large area of what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States, from California to Louisiana, the state of Florida, most of Central America and the Caribbean, the northern parts of South America, the Philippines and Guam.source
  • December 4 – The Consejo de i Diexe, governing body for the Republic of Venice, votes to replace the republic's treasury, made of wood, with the Zecca a structure that has stone vaults, and invites architects to submit designs.source
  • Suleiman the Magnificent begins the rebuilding of the walls around Jerusalem.source
  • Bahadur Shah of Gujarat first reign as sultan of Gujarat Sultanate ends (began 1526)Indiasource

Conflict & Security

  • 13 January – Swedish victory at the Battle of Helsingborg (1535).Swedensource
  • March 23 – English forces under William Skeffington storm Maynooth Castle in Ireland, the stronghold of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, after a siege that began on March 16. Skeffington shows little mercy to the 25 surviving defenders, and has them decapitated in front of the castle two days after the surrender.source
  • March – Silken Thomas' stronghold at Maynooth, County Kildare, is taken by an English force under Sir William Skeffington, in his absence.Irelandsource
  • June 1 – The Conquest of Tunis by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, begins with the destruction of Barbarossa's fleet. Following the eventual capture of the city from the Ottoman Empire, around 30,000 inhabitants are massacred.source
  • June 8 – Battle of Bornholm: Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy.source
  • 11 June – Swedish victory at the Battle of Öxnebjerg.Swedensource
  • 16 June – Swedish victory at the Battle of Little Belt.Swedensource
  • June 24 – Münster Rebellion: The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.source
  • June – Swedish victory at the Battle of Bornholm (1535).Swedensource
  • August – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (Silken Thomas) surrenders.Irelandsource
  • November 1 – Eighteen days after the death of Francesco II Sforza, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V claims the Duchy of Milan as his inheritance under Sforza's will. King François of France disputes the claim of Charles, citing the French right to rule Milan, Genoa and Asti, and the dispute leads to war between France and the Empire.source
  • November – Swedish victory at the Sea Battle of Copenhagen.Swedensource
  • Spanish forces abandon the second attempted conquest of Yucatán.source
  • Mughal Emperor Humayun gives battle to Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • March 10 – Fray Tomás de Berlanga discovers the Galápagos Islands, when blown off course en route to Peru.source
  • April 11 – The visiting Ottoman envoys to France depart from Marseille, six months after having arrived from Istanbul in October. Jean de La Forêt, the new French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, accompanies the Ottoman fleet with his party on a French galley, and the group sails to Tunis.source
  • May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage).source
  • May 19 – Explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men and Chief Donnacona's two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage).Francesource
  • July 3 – Diego de Almagro leaves the recently conquered Inca capital of Cuzco to lead an expedition to Chile.source
  • September 13 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the first person to pass through the new Porta Nuova in Palermo, celebrating the European conquest of the North African territory of Tunis.source
  • October 2 – Jacques Cartier reaches the island in the Saint Lawrence River, that eventually becomes Montreal.source

Religion & Belief

  • January 21 – The French Protestant leaders of the October 1534 Affaire des Placards are burned to death in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris and witnessed by a large crowd that includes King François and the visiting Ottoman diplomats.source
  • April 20 – While King Gustav Vasa of Sweden is out of the country, an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, the Vädersol, appears in the sky over the Swedish capital of Stockholm, and last for two hours. Because of uncertainty about whether the vädersol is a sign of God showing favor or disapproval of the Protestant reformation and of King Gustav himself, the Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop Olaus Petri commissions Urban Larsson to document the event in a painting, the Vädersolstavlan.source
  • July 15 – Archdeacon Charles Reynolds (cleric), envoy to James V, Charles V, and Pope Paul III, is buried in Rome. He died of malaria while lobbying for the excommunication of King Henry VIII for heresy.source
  • August 17 – Pope Paul III issues a papal bull, Sublimis Deus, to appoint a commission of five cardinals and three bishops to carry out a reform of the city of Rome and the Roman Curia, with unlimited powers to uproot and punish all spiritual and secular transgressions, abuses, and errors.source
  • October 4 – The first complete English-language Bible is printed in Antwerp, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.source
  • The earliest (partially) preserved printed book in Estonian, a Catechism with a translation by Johann Koell from the Middle Low German Lutheran text of Simon Wanradt, is printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg, for use in Tallinn.source

Science & Discovery

  • 20 April – The appearance of Sun dogs leads to the painting of the Vädersolstavlan.Swedensource

Health & Medicine

  • November 14 – Voters in the Republic of Geneva approve the merger of the city's seven charitable establishments into a single entity, the Hôpital généralsource

Crime & Justice

  • May 10 – In Amsterdam, a small troop of Anabaptists, led by the minister Jacob van Geel, attacks the city hall, in an attempted coup to seize the city. In the counter-attack by the city's militia, the burgemeester, Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels. In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five women walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands.source
  • May 20 – William Tyndale is arrested in Antwerp for heresy, in relation to his Bible translation, and imprisoned in Vilvoorde.source
  • October – Silken Thomas is sent as a prisoner to the Tower of London.Irelandsource
  • November 30 – Jakob Hutter, leader of the Hutterites is arrested along with his wife in Klausen in the Tyrol region on the Italian side of the Alps. The two are taken to the prison at the fortress in Bronzolo.source
  • December – Manco Inca Yupanqui, nominally Sapa Inca, is imprisoned by the Spanish Conquistadors of Peru.source

Culture & Society

  • January 18 – Lima, now the capital of Peru, is founded by Francisco Pizarro, as Ciudad de los Reyes.source
  • January 21 – King Francis I organized a procession in Paris as a show of religious devotion, displaying holy relics such as the Crown of thorns and giving a speech declaring his faith that has come into question due to some of his alliances.Francesource
  • February 27 – George Joye publishes his Apologye in Antwerp, to clear his name from the accusations of William Tyndale.source
  • December 28 – James Atkenhead, the envoy of Scotland's King James V, leaves Scotland to travel to France to evaluate Mary of Bourbon, daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme, as a prospective queen consort. After the evaluation, and a personal visit by King James to France, the Scottish monarch decides to return to his plan to marry Madeline of Valois, daughter of King Francois of France.source

Births

  • 19 January Mata Bhani, also known as Bibi Bhani, daughter of third Sikh guru Guru Amar Das, wife of fourth Sikh guru Guru Ram Das and mother of fifth Sikh guru Guru Arjan Dev is born (dies 1598)Indiasource
  • February 11 – Pope Gregory XIV (died 1591)source
  • February 24 – Eléanor de Roye, noblewoman (d.1564)Francesource
  • February 27 – Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (died 1593)source
  • February 28 – Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer (died 1578)source
  • March 10 – William of Rosenberg, High Treasurer and High Burgrave of Bohemia (died 1592)source
  • May 31 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (died 1607)source
  • June 2 – Pope Leo XI (died 1605)source
  • June 24 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (died 1573)source
  • July 21 – García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, Royal Governor of Chile (died 1609)source
  • July 22 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1621)source
  • 22 July – Catherine Stenbock, queen consort of Sweden (died 1621)Swedensource
  • August 21 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1619)source
  • September 6 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (died 1612)source
  • October 16 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (died 1585)source
  • November 9 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (died 1600)source
  • December 28 – Martin Eisengrein, German theologian (died 1578)source
  • Isabelle de Limeuil, noblewoman (d.1609)Francesource

Deaths

  • February 18 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist and occult writer (born 1486)source
  • February 28 – Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of the Livonian Order (born 1450)source
  • April 22 – Louis de Gorrevod, clergyman (born c.1473)Francesource
  • May 4 – Saint Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine monk of Syon — executed by Henry VIII of Englandsource
  • May 4 – The first of the English Carthusian Martyrs of London, John Houghton of London, Robert Lawrence of Beauvale, and Augustine Webster of Axholme are executed at Tyburn after refusing to sign the English Oath of Supremacy. The three will be canonized 435 years later on October 25, 1970, as saints of the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day of May 4.source
  • June 19 – Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk and martyr (born 1500)source
  • June 22 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (executed) (born c. 1469)source
  • June 22 – Cardinal John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, is executed for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to King Henry VIII of England.source
  • July 6 – Sir Thomas More, English lawyer, writer, and politician (executed) (born 1478)source
  • July 6 – Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason, after refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the English Church, and separate from the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • July 11 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1484)source
  • July – Gustav Trolle, archbishop of Uppsala (born 1488)Swedensource
  • August 10 – Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (born 1509)source
  • September 23 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born 1513)source
  • 23 September – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Sweden (born 1513)Swedensource
  • September – George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny (born 1469)source
  • December 29 – Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, Japanese daimyo (born 1511)source
  • Jodocus Badius, printing pioneer (born 1462)Francesource