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Year 1531 (MDXXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–June

  • January 26 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake in which thousands die.
  • February 27 – Lutheran princes in the Holy Roman Empire form an alliance known as the Schmalkaldic League.
  • February or March – Battle of Antukyah: Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of the Adal Sultanate defeats the Ethiopian army.
  • April – Battle of Puná: Francisco Pizarro defeats the island's native inhabitants.
  • April 16 – The city of Puebla, Mexico, is founded.
  • May – The third Dalecarlian rebellion in Sweden appears to be over when the king accepts an offer made by the rebels, but violence flares up again the following year.
  • June 24 – The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico, is founded.

    • July–December

  • July 25 – The city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico is founded.
  • August 26 – Comet Halley achieves its perihelion.
  • September 22 – Battle of Obertyn: The Moldavians are defeated by Polish forces under Jan Tarnowski, allowing the Poles to recapture Pokucie.
  • October 11 – Battle of Kappel: The forces of Zürich are defeated by the Catholic cantons. Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss religious reformer, is killed.
  • October 28 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia thus falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
  • December 12 – Mary, mother of Jesus, in the guise of Our Lady of Guadalupe, appears imprinted on the tilmàtli of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism, in Tepeyacac near Mexico City.

    • Date unknown

  • Andrea Alciato publishes the first part of his Emblemata.
  • Conquistador Francisco de Montejo claims Chichen Itza as capital of Spanish-ruled Yucatán.
  • The University of Sarajevo is founded by Gazi Husrev-beg.
  • Kõpu Lighthouse is completed.
  • An enormous drought in Henan province, China, coupled with a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forces many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying by starvation.
  • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system by pressure of Bartolomé de las Casas.
  • Witch-hunt in the town of Schiltach, Germany.

    • Births

  • January 1? – John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1607)
  • January 26 – Jens Bille, son of Claus Bille and Lisbeth Ulfstand (d. 1575)
  • April 6 – Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1595)
  • May 15 – Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I (d. 1581)
  • May 20 – Thado Minsaw of Ava, Viceroy of Ava (d. 1584)
  • June 1 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian scholar (d. 1584)
  • July 17 – Antoine de Créqui Canaples, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1574)
  • July 22 – Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar and quack at the court of John George, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1595)
  • September 2 – Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, Bishop of Fiesole (d. 1595)
  • September 4 – Hans Fugger, German businessman (d. 1598)
  • September 14 – Philipp Apian, German mathematician and medic (d. 1589)
  • Late September – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, English noble and diplomat (died 1594)
  • October 7 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (d. 1601)
  • October 12 – Jacques de Savoie, 2nd Duc de Nemours (d. 1585)
  • October 25 – Matthew Wesenbeck, Belgian jurist (d. 1586)
  • October 27 – Herbert Duifhuis, Dutch minister (d. 1581)
  • November 14 – Richard Topcliffe, English torturer (died 1604)
  • November 16 – Anna d'Este, Duchess consort of Nemours (d. 1607)
  • November 18 – Roberto di Ridolfi, Italian conspirator against Elizabeth I of England (died 1612)
  • November 29 – Johannes Letzner, German Protestant priest and historian (d. 1613)
  • December – Hendrick van Brederode, Dutch noble (died 1568)
  • December 6 – Vespasiano I Gonzaga, Italian noble and diplomat (d. 1591)
  • December 9 – Şehzade Cihangir, Ottoman prince (d. 1553)
  • December 10 – Henry IX, Count of Waldeck (d. 1577)
  • date unknown
  • Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese nobleman (died 1575)
  • António, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (died 1595)

    • Deaths

  • January 21 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (born 1487)
  • February 16 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (born 1452)
  • March 6 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (born c. 1440)
  • May 19 – Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (born 1456)
  • July 7 – Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (born 1460)
  • July 17 – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (born 1484)
  • July 23 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
  • October 11 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (in battle) (born 1484)
  • September 22 – Louise of Savoy, French regent (born 1476)
  • November 24 – Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (born 1482)
  • date unknown
  • María Pacheco, Spanish heroine and defender of Toledo (born 1496)
  • Vallabha Acharya, founder of the Hindu Vallabha sect (born 1479)
  • Gerónimo de Aguilar, Franciscan friar who participated in the Spanish conquest of Mexico (b. 1489)
  • probable – Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (born 1492)

    • References

    1531 Wikipedia
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