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1539
George the Bearded
Duke George the Bearded of Saxony dies.
Hernando de Soto
The Spanish conquistador
Hernando de Soto
lands in Florida .
Edict of Villers-Cotterêts
Francis I of France has the Edict of Villers-Cotterets ,
that every official document in French must be drawn up.
1539 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 987/988 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 1531/32
Buddhist calendar 2082/83 (southern Buddhism); 2081/82 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 70th (71st) cycle

Year of the Earth-Pig己亥 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Dog 戊戌)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 901/902 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea) 3872/73 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar 917/918
Islamic calendar 945/946 (turn of the year 18/19 May)
Jewish calendar 5299/5300 (September 12/13)
Coptic calendar 1255/56
Malayalam calendar 714/715
Seleucid era Babylon: 1849/50 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 1850/51 (turn of the year October)

Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 1595/96 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

America

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Holy Roman Empire

Dominions at the start of Wilhelm's government

Other events in Europe

Hans Holbein : Sir Nicholas Carew

science and technology

Carta Marina

Culture

Macropedius' Hecastus , first edition by Michael Hillen

religion

Anna Jansz on the way to the execution, depiction from the Märtyrerspiegel 1685

Born

Date of birth saved

Exact date of birth unknown

Born around 1539

Died

January to April

Isabella d'Este
Grave slab of George the Bearded in Meissen Cathedral

May to December

Isabella of Portugal

Exact date of death unknown

Marco Palmezzano: self-portrait

Died around 1539