1538

Year 1538 (MDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1538 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1538
MDXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2291
Armenian calendar987
ԹՎ ՋՁԷ
Assyrian calendar6288
Balinese saka calendar1459–1460
Bengali calendar945
Berber calendar2488
English Regnal year29 Hen. 8  30 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2082
Burmese calendar900
Byzantine calendar7046–7047
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4234 or 4174
     to 
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4235 or 4175
Coptic calendar1254–1255
Discordian calendar2704
Ethiopian calendar1530–1531
Hebrew calendar5298–5299
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1594–1595
 - Shaka Samvat1459–1460
 - Kali Yuga4638–4639
Holocene calendar11538
Igbo calendar538–539
Iranian calendar916–917
Islamic calendar944–945
Japanese calendarTenbun 7
(天文7年)
Javanese calendar1456–1457
Julian calendar1538
MDXXXVIII
Korean calendar3871
Minguo calendar374 before ROC
民前374年
Nanakshahi calendar70
Thai solar calendar2080–2081
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1664 or 1283 or 511
     to 
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
1665 or 1284 or 512
April 26: Battle of Las Salinas

Events

September 28: Battle of Preveza

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • Michelangelo starts work on the Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
  • The first in a decade-long series of severe famines and epidemics sweep central and southeastern China during the Ming dynasty, made worse by a decision of 1527 to cut back on the intake of grain quotas for granaries.
  • In China, a tsunami floods over the seawall in Haiyan County of Zhejiang province, inundating fields with saltwater, ruining many acres of crops. This drives up the price of foodstuffs, and many are forced to live off of tree bark and weeds (as Wang Wenlu states in his writing of 1545).
  • Paracelsus visits Villach.

Births

Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo
  • January 6 Jane Dormer, English lady-in-waiting to Mary I (d. 1612)
  • January 10 Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
  • January 13 Udai Singh of Marwar, Ruler of Marwar (d. 1595)
  • January 15 Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1599)
  • January 16 John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony and nominal Duke of Saxe-Gotha (d. 1565)
  • February 23 Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1604)
  • March 25 Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612)
  • April 24 Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1587)
  • April 26 Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
  • June 30 Bonaventura Vulcanius, Flemish Renaissance humanist (d. 1614)
  • July 8 Alberto Bolognetti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1585)
  • July 12 Infanta Maria of Guimarães, Portuguese infanta (d. 1577)
  • September 21 Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt, English Member of Parliament (d. 1601)
  • September 29
    • Count Johan II of East Frisia (d. 1591)
    • Joan Terès i Borrull, Viceroy of Catalonia (d. 1603)
  • October 2 Saint Charles Borromeo, Spanish saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1584)
  • October 17 Irene di Spilimbergo, Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559)
  • November 16 Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitor, missionary Archbishop of Lima (d. 1606)
  • December 6 Francesco Gonzaga, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1566)
  • December 8 Miklós Istvánffy, Hungarian politician (d. 1615)
  • December 10 Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (d. 1612)
  • December 11 Sigismund of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Magdeburg, Administrator of Halberstadt (d. 1566)
  • December 13 Sigrid Sture, Swedish Governor (d. 1613)
  • December 19 Jan Zborowski, Polish noble (d. 1603)
  • December 21 Luigi d'Este, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)
  • date unknown
    • François de Bar, French scholar (d. 1606)
    • Diane de France, illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France (d. 1619)
    • Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Welsh-born statesman (d. 1601)
    • Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shōgun (d. 1568)
    • Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607)

Deaths

Diego de Almagro
  • January 8 Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1504)
  • February 3 John III of the Palatinate, Administrator of the Bishopric of Regensburg (b. 1488)
  • February 7 Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Norway (born c. 1480).[5]
  • February 12 Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter (b. c. 1480)[6]
  • March 18 Érard de La Marck, prince-bishop of Liège (b. 1472)
  • April 3 Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1480)
  • April 4 Elena Glinskaya, Regent of Russia (b. c. 1510)
  • May 8 Edward Foxe, English churchman (b. 1496)
  • May 15 Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1482)
  • May 22 John Forest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
  • June 22 Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1511–1538) (b. 1467)
  • June 30 Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
  • July 8 Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (b. 1475)
  • September 14 Henry III of Nassau-Breda, Baron of Breda (b. 1483)
  • September 28 Mary of Bourbon, daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme (b. 1515)
  • October 20 Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, condottiero (b. 1490)
  • November 22 John Lambert, English Protestant martyr (burned at stake)
  • December 28 Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (b. 1455)[7]
  • date unknown
    • Pierre Gringoire, French poet and playwright (b. 1475)
    • Isabella Hoppringle, Scottish abbess and spy (b. 1460)
    • Paganino Paganini, Italian publisher (b. c. 1450)

References

  1. Kenneth M. Setton (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, (1204-1571).: The sixteenth century to the reign of Julius III. American Philosophical Society. p. 434. ISBN 978-0-87169-161-3.
  2. Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen (1976). The Royal Road of the Inca. Gordon & Cremonesi. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-86033-009-7.
  3. Selcuk Aksin Somel (2010). The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8108-7579-1.
  4. Scarisbrick, J. J. (1997). Henry VIII (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 361. ISBN 0-300-07158-2.
  5. Rian, Øystein. "Olav Engelbrektsson". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  6. Ernst Buchner (1960). German Painting at the Time of Dürer. Hirmer. p. 26.
  7. Benzoni, Gino (2002). "GRITTI, Andrea". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 59: Graziano–Grossi Gondi (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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