Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  - 1530s -  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1528 1529 1530 - 1531 - 1532 1533 1534

1531 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1531 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1531

January - June

• January 26 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake in which thousands die.
• February 27 - Lutheran princes in the Holy Roman Empire form a defensive alliance known as the Schmalkaldic League.
• February (or March) - Battle of Antukyah: Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of Adal defeats the Ethiopian army.
• February 11 - Henry VIII of England is recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.
• April - Battle of Puná: Francisco Pizarro defeats the island's native inhabitants.
• April 16 - The city of Puebla, Mexico is founded.
• June 24 - The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico is founded.

July - December

• July 25 - The city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico is founded.
• September 22 - Battle of Obertyn: The Moldavians are defeated by Polish forces under Jan Amor Tarnowski, allowing the Polish Crown to retrieve Pokucie.
• October 11 - Battle of Kappel: The forces of Zürich are defeated by the Catholic cantons. Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss religious reformer, is killed.
• October 28 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia thus falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
• December 12 - The Virgin Mary, in the guise of Our Lady of Guadalupe, appears to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism.

Undated

• Andrea Alciato publishes the first part of his Emblemata.
• The Comet Halley appears.
• Conquistador Francisco de Montejo claims Chichen Itza as capital of Spanish ruled Yucatán.
• The University of Sarajevo is founded by Gazi Husrev-beg.
• Kõpu lighthouse is completed.
• An enormous drought in Henan province of China during the Ming Dynasty is coupled with the disaster of a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forcing many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying off by starvation.
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system by pressure of Bartolome de Las Casas.

Births

• September - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (d. 1594)
• October 12 - Jacques de Savoie, 2nd Duc de Nemours (d. 1585)
• 14 November - Richard Topcliffe, notorious English torturer and sadist (d. 1604)
• November 18 - Roberto di Ridolfi, Italian conspirator against Elizabeth I (d. 1612)
• date unknown
  • Henry, Count of Bréderode (d. 1568)
  • Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese nobleman (d. 1575)
  • John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1607)
  • António, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (d. 1595)

See also Category: 1531 births.

Deaths

• January 21 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (b. 1487)
• February 16 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (b. 1452)
• March 6 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (b. c. 1440)
• May 19 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
• July 7 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (b. 1460)
• July 17 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
• July 23 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
• October 10 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (in battle) (b. 1484)
• September 22 - Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I of France (b. 1476)
• November 24 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
• date unknown
  • Vallabhacharya, founder of the Hindu Vallabha sect (b. 1479)
• probable
  • Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (b. 1492)

See also Category: 1531 deaths.