Explore 147 historical events from 1530–1539.
Henry VIII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 22 April 1509, and King of Ireland from 18 June 1542, until his death in 1547.
The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and primate of the Church of England. They are the diocesan bishop of the diocese of Canterbury and the metropolitan of the provin…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution, by beheading for treason, made her a key…
Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England
William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set o…
William I of Orange, founding father of the Netherlands (died 1584)
Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a member of the House of Welf, was the last ruler of the Principality of Grubenhagen from 1595 until his death. When he died in 1596, the Gru…
Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (died 1596)
Martín de Rada was one of the first members of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) to spread the Christian doctrine in the Philippines, as well as one of the first Christian mission…
Martín de Rada, Spanish missionary (died 1578)
Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter-Reformation, serving as a papal diplomat, Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was the fi…
Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (died 1611)
Theodor Zwinger the Elder was a Swiss physician and Renaissance humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. He wa…
Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar (died 1588)
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La…
Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (died 1595)
Giacomo Zabarella was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician.
Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher and logician (died 1589)
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign,…
Elizabeth I of England (died 1603)
Catherine of Austria was one of the fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. In 1553, she married Polish King and Lithuanian Grand Duke …
Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (died 1572)
Nicholas West, was an English bishop and diplomatist, born at Putney in Surrey, and educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1486. He also …
Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (born 1461)
Mary Tudor was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior. Mary was the fifth child of Henry V…
Mary Tudor, queen of France (born 1496)
John Frith was an English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr.
John Frith, English priest, writer, and martyr (born 1503)
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Inn…
Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet and playwright (born 1474)
Atawallpa, also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa, whose regnal name was Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca, was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture…
Atahualpa, Inca emperor abducted and murdered by Francisco Pizarro (born ca. 1500)
Lucas van Leyden, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished en…
Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (born 1494)
Atawallpa, also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa, whose regnal name was Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca, was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture…
Atahualpa, Inca emperor (born 1497)
Veit Stoss was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance. His style emphasized p…
Veit Stoss, German sculptor (born c. 1447)
Thomas Cranmer was an English theologian who was a leader of the English Reformation and served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a sh…
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured
Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. H…
Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England
Henry VIII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 22 April 1509, and King of Ireland from 18 June 1542, until his death in 1547.
Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye
The union of the Duchy of Brittany with the Crown of France was the culmination of a political process begun at the end of the 15th century in the wake of the Mad War. It resulted …
Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.