1539

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s – 1530s – 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years:	1536 1537 1538 – 1539 – 1540 1541 1542

1539 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1539 (MDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1539

January 12, Treaty of Toledo. Signed by Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor, Spanish King) and Francis I (French King), agreeing to make no further alliances with England. Grew out of the disagreement between Pope Paul III and Henry VIII.
March – Canterbury Cathedral surrenders, and reverts to its previous status of 'a college of secular canons'.
May 30 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. He also introduces pigs into North America.
May – The Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England.

Protestant Reformation: Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.
Beaulieu Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Colchester Abbey, St Albans Abbey, Priory of St Mary, Nottinghamshire (Newstead Abbey) and St Mary's Abbey, York fall prey to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
In a worse scenario than in 1531, when there was just a drought and locusts killing off the populace through starvation and cannibalism, this year in Henan province, China, during the Ming Dynasty, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse by a large epidemic outbreak of the plague.
Francis I of France issues an ordinance that places the whole of France under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts and makes French the language of those courts.
Horse Racing began at Chester

See also Category: 1539 births.

February 6 – John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)
February 13 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
March 5 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
March 12 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)
April 17 – George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
May 7 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
May 7 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
July 5 – St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
August – Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (b. 1480)
September 8 – John Stokesley, English prelate (b. 1475)
November 15 – Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
December 20 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. c. 1539)
date unknown
- James Beaton, Scottish church leader (b. 1473)

See also Category: 1539 deaths.