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1537

Years: 1534 1535 1536 - 1537 - 1538 1539 1540

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated
• 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.
• Portuguese bring potato to Europe

Births

• October 12 - Prince Edward Tudor, later King Edward VI of England.
• October 12? - Lady Jane Grey, later Queen of England.
• December 24 - Prince John Vasa, later King John III of Sweden

Deaths

• October 24 - Jane Seymour, Queen-consort of King Henry VIII of England dies after complications in childbirth

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