1541
* The first official translation of the entire
Bible in
Swedish*
February 12 -
Pedro de Valdivia founds
Santiago de Chile.
*
April 7 -
Francis Xavier leaves
Lisbon on a mission to the
Portuguese East Indies.
*
April 24 - The
Battle of Sahart was fought between the army of
Ethiopean Emperor and forces of
Somali Ahmad Gragn.
*
May 8 -
Hernando de Soto reaches the
Mississippi River naming it
Rio de Espiritu Santo.
*
May 23 -
Jacques Cartier departs
Saint-Malo France on his third voyage.
*
July 9 -
Estevão da Gama departs
Massawa, leaving behind 400
matchlockmen and 150 slaves under his brother
Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the
Emperor of Ethiopia defeat
Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his
Empire.
*
August 29 - The
Janissaries of
Suleiman the Magnificent take
Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as tourists.
*
Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent seals off
The Golden Gate in
Jerusalem.
* The
Parliament of Ireland declares
Henry VIII of England King of Ireland replacing the
Lordship of Ireland with the
Kingdom of Ireland.
* October - The unsuccessful
Algerian campaign of
Charles V of Spain Gabsurg.
* Iceland adopts the
Lutheran faith
*
January 26 -
Florent Chrestien, French writer (d.
1596)
*
March 25 -
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died
1587)
*
April 8 -
Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (died
1593)
*
Pierre Charron, French philosopher (died
1603)
*
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died
1576)
*
El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Î"ομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος),
Cretian painter, sculptor and architect (died
1614)
*
Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (died
1579)
*
Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (died
1600)
*
Guðbrandur Þorláksson, mathematician
*
Hattori Hanzo, Ninja who served under
Tokugawa Ieyasu*
May 27 -
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (executed) (born
1473)
*
June 26 -
Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
*
July 4 -
Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (born
1495)
*
August 1 -
Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (born
1493)
*
September 24 -
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b.
1493)
*
November 24 -
Margaret Tudor, queen of
James IV of Scotland (born
1489)
*
Francisco Alvarez, Portuguese missionary and explorer (born
1465)
*
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, German reformer
*
Jean Clouet, French miniature painter
*
Thomas Culpeper, English courtier
*
Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (born
1480)
*
Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer
*
Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama*
Jerzy Radziwill, Polish nobleman (born
1480)
*
Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord
*
Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born
1500)
See also :Category: 1541 deaths.
