Explore 147 historical events from 1530–1539.
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…
Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
Sir Thomas Lucy was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585. He was a magistrate in Warwickshire, but is best known for his links to William Shakespe…
Thomas Lucy, English politician (died 1600)
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many yea…
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1588)
William IV of Hesse-Kassel, also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. He was the founder of the oldest line, which survives to this…
William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1573)
Alphonsus Rodríguez was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit lay brother and saint (died 1617)
John, known as John the Steadfast or John the Constant, was Elector of Saxony from 1525 until 1532. He belonged to the House of Wettin.
John, Elector of Saxony (born 1468)
William Warham was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 until his death in 1532.
William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1450)
Archduchess Maria of Austria was the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor from the House of Habsburg and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.
Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (died 1581)[citation needed]
Thado Minsaw was viceroy of Ava (Inwa) from 1555 to 1584 during the reigns of kings Bayinnaung and Nanda of Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). He fought alongside his brothers Bay…
Thado Minsaw of Ava, Viceroy of Ava (died 1584)
Antoine de Créqui Canaples (1531–1574) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Antoine de Créqui Canaples, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1574)
Leonard Thurneysser was a Swiss-German scholar and miracle doctor at the court of Elector John George of Brandenburg.
Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg (died 1595)
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, often referred to as Francesco Cattani da Diacceto il Giovane in order to distinguish him from his grandfather, the philosopher Francesco di Zanobi C…
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Bishop of Fiesole (died 1595)
Jan Łaski was a Polish nobleman, Grand Chancellor of the Crown (1503–10), diplomat, from 1490 secretary to Poland's King Casimir IV Jagiellon and from 1508 coadjutor to the Archbis…
Jan Łaski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (born 1456)
Tilman Riemenschneider was a German woodcarver and sculptor active in Würzburg from 1483. A master in limewood and stone, he was one of the most prolific and versatile sculptors of…
Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (born 1460)
Hosokawa Takakuni was the most powerful military commander in the Muromachi period under Ashikaga Yoshiharu, the twelfth shōgun. His father was Hosokawa Masaharu, a member of the b…
Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese commander (born 1484)
Louis de Brézé, Seigneur d'Anet and Count of Maulévrier, was a French nobleman, the grandson of King Charles VII of France through his illegitimate daughter, born from his relation…
Louis de Brézé, French husband of Diane de Poitiers
The diets of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in the German city of Augsburg. Both an Imperial City and the residence of the Augsburg p…
At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Elect
Saint Dominic in Soriano was a portrait of Saint Dominic (1170–1221) kept in the Dominican friary at Soriano Calabro in southern Italy. It is known to have been present at the f…
Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as…
Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery, Lord of Lorges and Ducey, was a French nobleman of Scottish extraction and captain of the Scots Guard of King Henry II of France. He is reme…
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (died 1574)
Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince of Condé was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Coming from a position of relative polit…
Louis, Prince of Condé (died 1569)
François de Montmorency, 2nd Duke of Montmorency was a French noble, governor, diplomat and soldier during the latter Italian Wars and the early French Wars of Religion. The son of…
François de Montmorency, French nobleman (died 1579)
Claude Fauchet was a sixteenth-century French historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist. Fauchet published the earliest printed work of literary history in a vernac…
Claude Fauchet, French historian and author (died 1601)
Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music…
Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (died 1590)
Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 u…
Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler (died 1584)