List of 1536 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1536
Date | Event |
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January 6, 1536 | The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in Mexico City. |
January 24, 1536 | King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence.[5] |
February 2, 1536 | Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
April 5, 1536 | Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph. |
May 2, 1536 | Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. |
May 6, 1536 | The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish. |
May 15, 1536 | Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest; she is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury. |
May 17, 1536 | George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason. |
May 17, 1536 | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled. |
May 19, 1536 | Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. |
May 30, 1536 | King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. |
July 6, 1536 | The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo at the end of his second expedition to North America. He returns with none of the gold he expected to find. |
July 16, 1536 | Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France. |
July 25, 1536 | Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali. |
August 13, 1536 | Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Tenbun (天文) era). |