1537

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1534 1535 1536 - 1537 - 1538 1539 1540

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s

align="center" | Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated
August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was 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 II establishes neo-Inca independent state at Vilacampa, Peru
Recife is founded by the Portuguese in Brazil.
The Portuguese bring the potato to Europe
Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran protestantism in Denmark and Norway

July 7 - Madeleine de Valois, princess of France, Queen of Scotland
October 24 - Jane Seymour, Queen-consort of King Henry VIII of England dies after complications in childbirth

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