Henry VIII's Church
Jan 15 King Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
New Settlement
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 17 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
- Jun 22 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
- Jun 24 Anabaptist commune of Münster captured and its leaders tortured and killed
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Thomas More goes on trial in England for treason
Event of Interest
Sep 1 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
- Oct 2 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
- Oct 4 The Coverdale Bible, the first complete Bible to be published in English, is printed in Antwerp with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale [1]