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1537

Year '''1537''' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

- January 6 - Alessandro de Medici is assassinated.
- March - Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's second battle of Cuzco|siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers.
- March 12 - Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
- May - City of Asuncion, Paraguay founded.

- August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

- 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 Capac|Manco II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru.
- The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe.
- Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in Denmark and Norway.
- Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII, including
    - Bisham Abbey|Bisham Priory,
    - Bridlington Priory,
    - Castle Acre Priory, and
    - Valle Crucis Abbey.
- Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.
- Bangalore is first mentioned.

- January 1 - Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish noble (d. 1567)
- March 4 - Longqing Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1572)
- May 20 - Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)
- June 28 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595)
- July 20 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
- October 12 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
- October 12 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (d. 1554)
- December 5 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597)
- December 23 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
- ''date unknown''
    - Jane Lumley, English translator (d. 1578)
    - Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader (d. 1583)
    - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (d. 1582)
    - Saint John Almond (d. 1585)
- ''See also :Category: 1537 births.''

- January 6
    - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
    - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
- January 12 - Lorenzo di Credi, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1459)
- February 3 - Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (executed) (b. 1513)
- February 8
    - Otto von Pack, German conspirator (b. c. 1480)
    - Saint Gerolamo Emiliani, Italian humanitarian (b. 1481)
- June 23 - Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (b. 1487)
- July 7 - Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
- September 4 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
- October 24 - Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (complications of childbirth) (b. c. 1507)
- ''date unknown''
    - John Kite, Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Carlisle
    - Thomas Murner, German satirist (b. 1475)
    - Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1502)
    - Stefan Berislavić, last Serbian Despotate|Serb Despot and medieval Serb monarch
- ''See also :Category: 1537 deaths.'' Category:1537| map-bms:1537 be-x-old:1537 simple:1537 zh-yue:1537年

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