Year 1538 (MDXXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
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April 26 : The Battle of Las Salinas is fought in Peru
September 28 : The Ottoman Empire defeats Europe's Holy League in the Battle of Preveza
January– March
January 14 – Leonard Grey , England's Lord Deputy of Ireland , successfully negotiates a truce in the semi-independent County Laois , formerly an Irish Kingdom, over the areas leadership. between Peter O'Moore and Rory Lysaght.[1]
January 31 – General Johann Katzianer of the Holy Roman Empire , on trial in Vienna for the disastrous Imperial campaign against the Ottoman Empire and for desertion during the Battle of Gorjani , escapes and flees to Kostajnica Fortress in Ottoman-controlled Croatia . After 14 months, Nikola IV Zrinski have Katzianer murdered.
February 8 – The Holy League , an alliance of Christian nations (the Papal States and the Republic of Venice , the Knights Hospitaller of Malta , Spain and the Spanish-ruled Viceroyalty of Naples and Sicily , is agreed upon under the direction of Pope Paul III and Venetian Senator Alvise Badoer .
February 24 – Treaty of Nagyvárad : Peace is declared between Ferdinand I, future Holy Roman Emperor and the Ottoman Empire . John Zápolya is recognized as King of Hungary (Eastern Hungarian Kingdom ), while Ferdinand retains the northern and western parts of the Kingdom, and is recognized as heir to the throne.[2]
March 18 – Garcia de Noronha is appointed as the new Governor-General of Portuguese India by King João III . He sails to Goa and arrives less than three weeks later.
April– June
April 6 – In India ,Sher Shah Suri , who had been the Mughal Empire's Governor of the Bihar Subah province, declares the founding of the Sur Empire and crowns himself as Emperor in a ceremony at Delhi .[3]
April 26 – Battle of Las Salinas : In Peru , Almagro is defeated by Francisco Pizarro , who then seizes Cusco .[4]
May 9 – Mary of Guise is wed by proxy to King James V of Scotland , while she is at the Château de Châteaudun and he is in London , with neither of the two seeing each other.
May 10 – In India Mahmud Khan, 11-year-old the nephew of the late Sultan Bahadur Shah , is enthroned as Mahmud Shah III , Sultan of Gujarat .[5]
May 27 – A joint delegation of Lutherans from various German cities arrives in England for meetings with King Henry VIII ; Thomas Cranmer , Archbishop of Canterbury; and Thomas Cromwell , the former Chief Minister of England.
June 18 –
June 19 – Dissolution of the Monasteries in England: The newly founded Bisham Abbey is dissolved.[7]
July– September
July 17 – The betrothal ceremony of 12-year-old Princess Elisabeth , granddaughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to the 17-year-old Prince Sigismund II Augustus , son of King Sigismund of Poland (who is also the Grand Duke of Lithuania) and heir to the throne, takes place in Innsbruck .[8] The two are married five years later on May 5, 1543.
July 25 – The city of Guayaquil , now the largest city in the South American nation of Ecuador is founded by Spanish conqueror Francisco de Orellana in the location of a Quechua native village of the same name. Orellana names the city "Santiago de Guayaquil".[9]
August 6 – Bogotá , Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada .[10]
September 18 – Ştefan V Lăcustă of the Bogdan-Musat dynasty in Romania is appointed as the new Prince of Moldavia by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman, replacing uncle, Petru Rareș .[11]
September 28 – Battle of Preveza : The Ottoman fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent , under the command of Hayreddin Barbarossa , defeats the Holy League of Emperor Charles V , under the command of Andrea Doria .[12]
September 29 – The last significant volcanic eruption in the Phlegraean Fields of Italy begins and lasts one week.[13] [14]
Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo
January 6 – Jane Dormer , English lady-in-waiting to Mary I (d. 1612 )[23]
January 10 – Louis of Nassau , Dutch general (d. 1574 )[24]
January 13 – Udai Singh of Marwar , Ruler of Marwar (d. 1595 )
January 15 – Maeda Toshiie , Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1599 )
January 16 – John Frederick III, Duke of Saxony and nominal Duke of Saxe-Gotha (d. 1565 )[25]
February 23 – Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1604 )
March 25 – Christopher Clavius , German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612 )[26]
April 24 – Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1587 )[27]
April 26 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo , Italian painter (d. 1600 )[28]
June 30 – Bonaventura Vulcanius , Flemish Renaissance humanist (d. 1614 )[29]
July 12 – Infanta Maria of Guimarães , Portuguese infanta (d. 1577 )
July 28 – Alberto Bolognetti , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1585 )[30]
September 29
October 2 – Saint Charles Borromeo , Spanish saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1584 )[31]
October 17 – Irene di Spilimbergo , Italian Renaissance poet and painter (d. 1559 )[32]
November 16 – Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo , Spanish Grand Inquisitor, missionary Archbishop of Lima (d. 1606 )[33]
June 12 – Francesco Gonzaga , Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1566 )[34]
July 25 – Diane de France , illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France (d. 1619 )[35]
December 8 – Miklós Istvánffy , Hungarian politician (d. 1615 )[36]
December 10 – Giovanni Battista Guarini , Italian poet (d. 1612 )[37]
December 11 – Sigismund of Brandenburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg, Administrator of Halberstadt (d. 1566 )[38]
December 13 – Sigrid Sture , Swedish Governor (d. 1613 )[39]
December 19 – Jan Zborowski , Polish noble (d. 1603 )
December 21 – Luigi d'Este , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1586 )[40]
date unknown
Diego de Almagro
January 8 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1504 )[46]
February 3 – John III of the Palatinate , Administrator of the Bishopric of Regensburg (b. 1488 )[47]
February 7 – Olav Engelbrektsson , Archbishop of Norway (born c. 1480).[48]
February 12 – Albrecht Altdorfer , German painter (b. c. 1480 )[49]
March 18 – Érard de La Marck , prince-bishop of Liège (b. 1472 )
April 3 – Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1480 )[50]
April 4 – Elena Glinskaya , Regent of Russia (b. c. 1510 )[51]
May 8 – Edward Foxe , English churchman (b. 1496 )[52]
May 15 – Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1482 )[53]
May 22 – John Forest , English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471 )[54] [55]
June 22 – Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1511–1538) (b. 1467 )[56]
June 30 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467 )[57]
July 8 – Diego de Almagro , Spanish conquistador (b. 1475 )[58]
September 14 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda , Baron of Breda (b. 1483 )[59]
September 28 – Mary of Bourbon , daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme (b. 1515 )[60]
October 20 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino , condottiero (b. 1490 )[61]
November 22 – John Lambert , English Protestant martyr (burned at stake)[62]
December 28 – Andrea Gritti , Doge of Venice (b. 1455 )[63]
date unknown
R. C. Majumdar, ed., The Mughul Empire , (Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2007)pp.391-398
Halil İnalcık (1973). The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 . Praeger. p. 41.
Moenich, Karoly (1876). Magyar irok nevtara (in Hungarian). Nirschy. p. 389. Retrieved September 13, 2023 .