1540s — dans l'histoire
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1540
L'abbaye de Waltham est rendue au roi Henri VIII d'Angleterre ; la dernière communauté religieuse à être fermée pendant la Dissolution des monastères.
Waltham Abbey Church · Henry VIII of England · Dissolution of the Monasteries
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1540
Thomas Cromwell est exécuté sur ordre d'Henri VIII d'Angleterre pour trahison. Le même jour, Henri épouse sa cinquième femme, Catherine Howard.
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1540
Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)
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1540
Barnabe Googe, English poet and translator (d. 1594)
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1540
Catherine, Duchess of Braganza (d. 1614)
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1540
Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581)
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1540
Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
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1540
Charles II, Archduke of Austria (d. 1590)
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Lady Catherine Grey, English noblewoman (d. 1568)
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1540
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
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1540
Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1610)
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1540
Maria de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1557)
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1540
Joseph Justus Scaliger, philologue et historien français (d. 1609)
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1540
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English aristocrat and courtier (d. 1614)
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1540
John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary (d. 1571)
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1540
Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497)
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1540
Le roi Henri VIII d'Angleterre se marie avec Anne de Clèves.
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1540
Le roi Henri VIII d'Angleterre annule son mariage avec sa quatrième épouse, Anne d'Autriche.
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1540
Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
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1540
Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583)
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1540
Johann Jakob Grynaeus, pasteur et théologien suisse (d. 1617)
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1540
Les forces du conquistador espagnol Hernando de Soto détruisent la ville fortifiée de Mabila, située aujourd'hui en Alabama, tuant Tuskaloosa.
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1540
Won Gyun, Korean general and admiral (d. 1597)
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1540
Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
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1540
Princess Cecilia of Sweden (d. 1627)
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1540
Konrad von Thüngen, German nobleman (b. c. 1466)
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1540
John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
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1540
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier (b. c. 1482)
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1540
Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German cardinal (b. 1469)
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1540
Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar (b. 1492)
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1540
Helius Eobanus Hessus, poète et éducateur allemand (né en 1488)
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1540
Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (b. 1483)
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1540
Federico II Gonzaga, duc de Mantoue (né en 1500)
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1540
Angela Merici, éducatrice et sainte italienne, a fondé la Compagnie de Sainte Ursule (née en 1474)
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1540
Thomas Cromwell, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1495)
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1540
Parmigianino, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1503)
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1540
Guillaume Budé, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1467)
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1540
Arequipa, Peru is founded.
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1541
King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
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1541
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
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Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco.
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1541
Florent Chrestien, French poet and translator (d. 1596)
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1541
Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1599)
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1541
Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (d. 1593)
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1541
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)
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1541
Thomas Culpeper et Francis Dereham sont exécutés pour avoir des aventures avec Catherine Howard, reine d'Angleterre et épouse d'Henri VIII.
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1541
Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
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1541
Hernando de Soto atteint la rivière Mississippi et la nomme Río de Espíritu Santo.
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1541
After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
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1541
The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
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1541
Thomas Culpeper, courtisan anglais (né en 1514)
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1541
Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer and politician, Governor of New Castile (b. c. 1471)
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1541
Francis Dereham, courtisan anglais (né vers 1513)
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1541
Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
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1541
Margaret Pole, comtesse de Salisbury (née en 1473)
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1541
French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
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1541
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
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1541
Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1495)
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1541
Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer (born 1486)
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1541
Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (b. 1493)
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1541
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
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1541
Marguerite Tudor, reine de Jacques IV d'Écosse (née en 1489)
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1542
Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (d. 1580)
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1542
Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
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1542
Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1605)
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1542
Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (d. 1591)
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1542
Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland (d. 1601)
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1542
Isabella de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1576)
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1542
Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
Battle of Solway Moss · River Esk, Dumfries and Galloway · Dumfries and Galloway
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1542
Catherine Howard, la cinquième épouse d'Henri VIII d'Angleterre, est exécutée pour adultère.
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1542
John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania and Protestant Bishop of Cammin (d. 1600)
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1542
Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
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1542
Philippe IV, comte de Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1602)
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1542
Thomas Allen, English mathematician and astrologer (d. 1632)
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1542
Akbar, empereur moghol (d. 1605)
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1542
Henriette de Clèves, duchesse de Nevers, comtesse de Rethel (d. 1601)
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1542
Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England
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1542
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623)
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter · Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
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1542
The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
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1542
Francisco de Orellana navigated the Amazon River, reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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1542
Guerre turco-portugaise (1538-57) : Bataille de Wofla : Les Portugais sont dispersés, leur leader Christovão da Gama est capturé et plus tard exécuté.
Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1538-59) · Battle of Wofla · Christovão da Gama
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Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (b. 1480)
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1542
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, explorateur espagnol (d. 1595)
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1542
Thomas Wyatt, poète et diplomate anglais (né en 1503)
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1542
Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
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1542
Hernando de Soto, Spanish-American explorer (b. 1496)
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1542
Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479)