Explore 133 historical events from 1530–1539.
Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter-Reformation, serving as a papal diplomat, Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was the fi…
Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (died 1611)
Theodor Zwinger the Elder was a Swiss physician and Renaissance humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. He wa…
Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar (died 1588)
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La…
Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (died 1595)
Nicholas West, was an English bishop and diplomatist, born at Putney in Surrey, and educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1486. He also …
Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (born 1461)
Mary Tudor was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior. Mary was the fifth child of Henry V…
Mary Tudor, queen of France (born 1496)
John Frith was an English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr.
John Frith, English priest, writer, and martyr (born 1503)
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Inn…
Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet and playwright (born 1474)
Atawallpa, also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa, whose regnal name was Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca, was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture…
Atahualpa, Inca emperor abducted and murdered by Francisco Pizarro (born ca. 1500)
Lucas van Leyden, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished en…
Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (born 1494)
Thomas Cranmer was an English theologian who was a leader of the English Reformation and served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a sh…
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured
Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. H…
Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England
Henry VIII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 22 April 1509, and King of Ireland from 18 June 1542, until his death in 1547.
Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye
The union of the Duchy of Brittany with the Crown of France was the culmination of a political process begun at the end of the 15th century in the wake of the Mad War. It resulted …
Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
Sir Thomas Lucy was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585. He was a magistrate in Warwickshire, but is best known for his links to William Shakespe…
Thomas Lucy, English politician (died 1600)
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many yea…
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1588)
William IV of Hesse-Kassel, also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. He was the founder of the oldest line, which survives to this…
William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1573)
Alphonsus Rodríguez was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit lay brother and saint (died 1617)
John, known as John the Steadfast or John the Constant, was Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532. He belonged to the House of Wettin.
John, Elector of Saxony (born 1468)
William Warham was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 until his death in 1532.
William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1450)
Archduchess Maria of Austria was the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor from the House of Habsburg and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.
Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (died 1581)[citation needed]
Thado Minsaw was viceroy of Ava (Inwa) from 1555 to 1584 during the reigns of kings Bayinnaung and Nanda of Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). He fought alongside his brothers Bay…
Thado Minsaw of Ava, Viceroy of Ava (died 1584)
Antoine de Créqui Canaples (1531–1574) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Antoine de Créqui Canaples, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1574)
Leonard Thurneysser was a Swiss-German scholar and miracle doctor at the court of Elector John George of Brandenburg.
Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg (died 1595)
Jan Łaski was a Polish nobleman, Grand Chancellor of the Crown (1503–10), diplomat, from 1490 secretary to Poland's King Casimir IV Jagiellon and from 1508 coadjutor to the Archbis…
Jan Łaski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (born 1456)