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1532 CE

Battle of Quipaipan in Peru: Atahualpa wins the civil war in the Inca Empire, defeating his brother Huáscar. Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France. A fire strikes the cathedral in Chambéry, now a part of France, but at the time a part of Italy's Duchy of Savoy. The fire burns several holes in the Shroud of Turin, believed by some Roman Catholics to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth after the crucifixion, and to have a miraculous imprint of Jesus, but the shroud is repaired by nuns at the cathedral.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • March 18 – The Supplication against the Ordinaries is presented to Henry VIII by Thomas More the Speaker of the House of Commons. Henry responds by stating that the Commons could hardly expect such consideration after they refused to assent to the government's proposals. Shortly afterwards, Parliament is prorogued until April 10.source
  • May 16 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.source
  • August 13 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.source
  • Henry VIII of England grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.source

Conflict & Security

  • April – Battle of Quipaipan in Peru: Atahualpa wins the civil war in the Inca Empire, defeating his brother Huáscar.source
  • June 25 – Suleiman the Magnificent leads another invasion of Hungary.source
  • August 5 – The siege of Güns in the Austrian Empire begins as the Ottoman army, under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, attempts to take the city of Güns (now Kőszeg in Hungary) with 100,000 troops in order to mount a larger invasion of the Austrian city of Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire. The defenders, less than 800 Croatian soldiers commanded by Nikola Jurišić, puts up a successful resistance despite being outnumbered by more than 100 to 1.source
  • August 30 – The siege of Güns fails as heavy rains and the arrival of reinforcements from Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to supplement the Croatian defenders, causes Suleiman to retreat.source
  • October 7 – (9th waxing of Tazaungmon 894 ME) The Burmese monarch Min Bin, King of Arrakan, leads a combined invasion force of 12,000 people (three armies of 11,000 men in a three-pronged attack, and a flotilla of war boats carrying 1,000 troops) in an invasion of Bengal in India.source
  • December 1 – (5th waxing of Pyatho 894 ME) The Burmese Army under Min Bin marches into Dhaka, capital of Bengal without any resistance.source
  • Possible date for the Battle of the Maule between Incas and Mapuches, according to historian Osvaldo Silva.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • January 22 – São Vicente is established as the first permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil.source
  • May 13 – Francisco Pizarro lands on the northern coast of Peru.source

Religion & Belief

  • February 24 – William Warham, the 81-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, publicly declares that he is disassociating himself from all acts of the English Parliament that are prejudicial to papal authority.source
  • April 27 – The democratic government of the Republic of Florence in Italy, in existence for more than 400 years since its founding in 1115, is abolished by order of Pope Clement VII in order for a hereditary, and absolute, monarchy to be established. Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, the illegitimate son of Pope Clement, is given full power and the Republic's parliament (the Signoria) and the rule of the executive officer, the Gonfaloniere, come to an end.source
  • July 23 – The Nuremberg Religious Peace is granted to members of the Schmalkaldic League, granting them religious liberty.source
  • December 4 – A fire strikes the cathedral in Chambéry, now a part of France, but at the time a part of Italy's Duchy of Savoy. The fire burns several holes in the Shroud of Turin, believed by some Roman Catholics to be the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth after the crucifixion, and to have a miraculous imprint of Jesus, but the shroud is repaired by nuns at the cathedral.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • The Paris Parlement has the city's beggars arrested "to force them to work in the sewers, chained together in pairs".source

Crime & Justice

  • November 16 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca, ambushing and slaughtering a large number of his followers, without loss to themselves. He subsequently offers a ransom of approximately $50 million in gold.source
  • December 20 – The first payment for Atahualpa's ransom from the Spaniards is made as gold is delivered to Cuzco to fill up a room.source

Culture & Society

  • February 12 – The Deceived Ones (Gl'ingannati), a stage comedy written collectively by the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena, makes its debut as part of the festivities of the Italian city's annual carnival.source
  • September 1 – Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.source
  • Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais.source
  • Stamford School is founded in England by William Radcliffe.source

Births

  • February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the Pléiade (d. 1589)source
  • April 23 – Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Prussia (d. 1568)source
  • June 6 – Giulio Antonio Santorio, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1602)source
  • June 7 – Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1560)source
  • June 13 – Countess Palatine Helena of Simmern, countess consort of Hanau-Münzenberg (1551-1561) (d. 1579)source
  • June 24 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, German Protestant leader (d. 1592)source
  • June 24 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (probable; d. 1588)source
  • July 25 – Alphonsus Rodriguez, Spanish Jesuit lay brother and saint (d. 1617)source
  • August 14 – Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Member of the House of Habsburg (d. 1590)source
  • October 4 – Francisco de Toledo, Spanish Jesuit cardinal (d. 1596)source
  • November 16 – Clara of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Abbess of Gandersheim, later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1595)source
  • November 22 – Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (d. 1585)source
  • December 7 – Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (d. 1605)source
  • December 20 – John Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (d. 1586)source

Deaths

  • May – Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussexsource
  • June 28 – Pompeo Colonna, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1479)source
  • June – Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (b. 1482)source
  • August 11 – John of Denmark, Danish prince (b. 1518)source
  • August 16 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)source
  • August 19 – Caritas Pirckheimer, German nun (b. 1467)source
  • August 22 – William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1450)source
  • September – Vlad VI Înecatul, Prince of Wallachiasource
  • October 1 – Jan Mabuse, Flemish paintersource
  • December 2 – Louis Gonzaga (Rodomonte), Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (b. 1500)source
  • December 3 – Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532 (b. 1502)source
  • December 12 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)source
  • December 13 – Solomon Molcho, Portuguese mystic (b. 1500)source
  • December 30 – Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish noble (b. 1467)source