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Year 1537 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1537

January - June

January 6 - Alessandro de Medici is assassinated.
March - Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.

July - December

August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

Undated

Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls who must not be enslaved or robbed.

Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru.

Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.

The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.

Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway.

Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII, including

Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.

Bangalore is first mentioned.

Births

January 1 - Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567)

March 4 - Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572)

May 20 - Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)

June 28 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595)

July 20 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)

October 12 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)

October 12 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (d. 1554)

December 5 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597)

December 23 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)

date unknown

Jane Lumley, English translator (d. 1578)
Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (d. 1582)
Saint John Almond (d. 1585)

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Deaths

January 6

Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)

January 12 - Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1459)

February 3 - Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (executed) (b. 1513)

February 8

Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480)
Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481)

June 23 - Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)

July 7 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)

September 4 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)

October 24 - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1507)

date unknown

John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1502)
Stefan Berislavić, last Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch

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