Historical Events
- Jan 15 Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
- Jan 18 Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima in Peru
- Feb 10 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
- Mar 10 Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
- Mar 28 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed in Friesland
- May 4 Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- Jun 14 Emperor Charles V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
- Jun 17 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
- Jun 22 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- Jun 24 Anabaptist commune of Münster captured and its leaders tortured and killed
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Famous People Born in 1535
- Feb 11 Gregory XIV [Niccolo Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
- May 31 Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and carpet designer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1607)
- Jun 2 Leo XI [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605)
- Jun 24 Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, born in Madrid (d. 1573)
- Jul 22 Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
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Famous People in 1535
Martin Luther
MichelangeloWorld Leaders in 1535
Charles V
Francis I of France
Henry VIII
Suleiman the Magnificent
Famous People Who Died in 1535
- Feb 18 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, physician and theologian, dies at 48
- Mar 1 Bernardo Accolti [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies at 70
- Mar 26 Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
- May 4 John Houghton, English monk, first of the Carthusian Martyrs, hung, drawn and quartered at the Tower of London
- Jun 22 John Fisher, British Catholic clergyman (Bishop of Rochester, 1504-35; Cardinal, 1535), martyr, and saint, dies by execution ordered by Henry VIII at about 65
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