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Calendar overview 1541
1541 | |
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John Calvin enforces the Reformation in Geneva . | Moritz becomes Duke of Saxony . |
Santiago de Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia . | |
1541 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 989/990 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1533/34 |
Buddhist calendar | 2084/85 (southern Buddhism); 2083/84 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 70th (71st) cycle
Year of the Metal Ox辛丑 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Rat 庚子) |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 903/904 (turn of the year April) |
Dangun era (Korea) | 3874/75 (October 2/3) |
Iranian calendar | 919/920 |
Islamic calendar | 947/948 (turn of the year April 26-27) |
Jewish calendar | 5301/02 (September 21/22) |
Coptic calendar | 1257/58 |
Malayalam calendar | 716/717 |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 1851/52 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1852/53 (turn of the year October) |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1597/98 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
America
- February 12 : Santiago de Chile is founded under the name Santiago del Nuevo Extremo by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia . Valdivia chooses the place because the Río Mapocho forms a larger island here.
- May 8 : Hernando de Soto is the first European to discover the Mississippi River .
- June 12 : Pedro de Alvarado arrives in New Spain to reinforce the crackdown on the Mixtón uprising against the Spanish colonial rulers that broke out last year . However, he is so badly injured in a battle that he dies on July 4th .
- September 11th : First destruction of Santiago de Chile during a Mapuche uprising against the Spanish conquistadors . Start of a three-year war.
- October 20 : In a letter to King Carlos of Spain , the conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado describes the Llano Estacado for the first time .
Ottoman Empire / Hungary
- May 25th : The Ottoman Sultan hands over the rule of Transylvania “as a son” to Johann Sigismund Zápolya , the one-year-old King of Hungary .
- The Ottoman Empire conquers the Hungarian capital Buda .
- Transylvania becomes an independent principality under Ottoman protection.
Holy Roman Empire
- June 13 : Emperor Charles V and Landgrave Philip I of Hesse sign the Regensburg Treaty , in which Philip undertakes, among other things, not to enter into an alliance with Francis I of France or other foreign powers.
- July 23rd : In the Regensburg partition agreement , the Hohenzollern people mutually redefine the boundaries between their principalities of Ansbach , where Albrecht's uncle and previous guardian Georg the Pious , and Kulmbach, on the occasion of Albrecht Alcibiades' takeover of government in the Principality of Kulmbach .
- August 18 : After the death of Heinrich from the House of Wettin , his son Moritz becomes Duke of the Albertine Duchy of Saxony .
- October 11 : Emperor Charles V gives his 14-year-old son Philip II the duchy of Milan as a fief.
Mediterranean area
- October 20 : Emperor Charles V lands with a fleet near Algiers to put an end to the Algerian corsairs . A storm that disperses the ships and heavy losses among the troops that landed lead the expedition to return home.
Other events in Europe
- The Lordship of Ireland is converted into the Kingdom of Ireland by an Act of Parliament .
First documentary mentions
- Grünenbach near Waldbröl is first mentioned in a document.
Asia
- The Burmese King Tabinshwehti of Taungu conquered the city of Martaban and largely destroyed it, whereupon it never regained its previous political and economic importance.
economy
- The Wendentaler is coined for the first time in Lüneburg .
- The Chinese port of Xiamen is used for the first time by European seafarers as a trading port.
Culture
- After five years of work, Michelangelo completes the Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel .
- At the Diet of Regensburg gets Kaspar Brusch the Emperor Charles V. poet crown .
Society and sport
- February: In a document written in the monastery of Paisley in the county of Renfrewshire , a game with stones on the ice comparable to curling is mentioned in writing for the first time.
Religion and culture
- January 17th : The Worms Religious Discussion ends with the presentation of the Worms Book as the basis for the following religious discussion at the Reichstag in Regensburg .
- April 5 to May 22 : The Regensburg Religious Discussion ends with no tangible result.
- September 13 : The proven reformer Johannes Calvin returns from Strasbourg to Geneva and begins to implement the Reformation together with the council .

Strasbourg hymn book from 1541
- Martin Luther wrote the work Wider Hans Worst on ecclesiology in hearty language .
- Martin Luther wrote the hymns Preserve us, Lord, by your word and Christ, our Lord, came to the Jordan .
- The dissolution of the English monasteries by King Henry VIII of England has been completed.
- The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor is inaugurated in Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola .
Disasters
- September 11 : The Volcán de Agua bursts and destroys the Guatemalan capital, today's suburb Ciudad Vieja , with a scree and mud avalanche . Several hundred people die.
- In a fire at Prague Castle , among other things, the Bohemian land tablets are lost.
Historical maps and views

Vesconte Maggiolo : Portolan map 1541
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 12 : Johann Bauhin , Swiss doctor and botanist († 1613 )
- February 21 : Philipp V , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg († 1599 )
- March 25 : Francesco I de 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany († 1587 )
- November 9 : Menso Alting , German preacher and theologian of the Reformation period († 1612 )
- November 9 : Virgil Pingitzer , German-Austrian legal scholar († 1619 )
- December 14th : Sophie von Brandenburg , Countess of Bohemia († 1564 )
- December 21 : Thomas Schweicker , armless art writer († 1602 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Nobukimi Anayama , Japanese samurai († 1582 )
- Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex , English nobleman († 1576 )
- El Greco , Greek-Spanish painter († 1614 )
- Hattori Hanzō , Japanese samurai and ninja († 1596 )
- Renée de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf , French noblewoman, mistress of the French King Henry III. († 1582 )
- Guðbrandur Þorláksson , Icelandic mathematician, cartographer and bishop († 1627 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 5th : Philipp von der Pfalz , Bishop of Freising and Bishop of Naumburg (* 1480 )
- January 23 : Gottschalk von Ahlefeldt , last Catholic bishop of Schleswig (* 1475 )
- March 17th : Angelo Beolco, called Ruzante , Italian comedy poet (* 1496 )
- March 18 : Henricus Ubbius , learned lawyer, East Frisian chancellor and chronicler (* around 1495 )
- March 25 : Paul Lindenau , German Lutheran theologian (* 1489 )
- April 7th : Gebhard XVII. von Alvensleben , governor, Magdeburg councilor and governor of Wolmirstedt (* before 1471 )
- April 29 : Johannes Gramann , German reformer and poet of hymns (* 1487 )
- May 20 : Johann III. von Henneberg-Schleusingen , prince abbot of Fulda (* 1503 )
- May 23 : Urbanus Rhegius , reformer, who was unusually active in both southern and northern Germany (* 1489 )
- May 28 : Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury , English noblewoman and Catholic martyr (* 1473 )
- June 26th : Francisco Pizarro , Spanish conquistador and conqueror of the Inca Empire (* around 1476 or 1478 )
- June 29th : Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre , English peer (* 1517 )
Second half of the year
- July 4th : Pedro de Alvarado , Spanish conquistador (* around 1486 )
- August 18 : Heinrich the Pious , Duke of Saxony (* 1473 )
- September 1 : Gül Baba , Turkish Bektashi dervish and poet (* late 15th century)
- September 12 : Peter Breuer , Saxon sculptor and carver (* around 1472 )
- September 24 : Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus , Swiss doctor, alchemist, astrologer, mystic, lay theologian and philosopher (* 1493 )
- October 18 : Margaret Tudor , Queen of Scotland, older sister of the English King Henry VIII (* 1489 )
- November 4th : Wolfgang Capito , reformer of Strasbourg (* 1478 )
- November 9th : Caspar Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German humanist and canon (* 1464 )
- November 15 : Margarete Blarer , German Reformed deaconess (* 1494 )
- November 16 : Elisabeth Silbereisen , German citizen's wife, wife of the reformer Martin Bucer (* around 1495)
- December 10 : Francis Dereham , lover of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
- December 15 : Johanna van der Gheynst , Dutch citizen and lover of Emperor Charles V (* around 1500 )
- December 24th : Andreas Bodenstein , German reformer (* 1480 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Francysk Skaryna , Lithuanian humanist, doctor and translator, is considered the "first printer in Belarus" (* 1486 )
- Juan de Valdés , Spanish secretary, humanist, theologian and author (* around 1490 )
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