Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1539
Birthdays
- March 25 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
- April 7 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
- November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
- December 5 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
Deaths
- February 13 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
- March 5 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
- April 17 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
- May 1 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
- May 7 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
- July 5 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
- September 8 - John Stokesley, English churchman
- September 22 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- December 20 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
Events
- January 12 - Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
- January 14 - Spain annexes Cuba.
- April 27 - Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
- June 3 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain.
- June 10 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
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