Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  - 1530s -  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1529 1530 1531 - 1532 - 1533 1534 1535

1532 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1532 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1532

January - June

• May 13 - Francisco Pizarro lands on the northern coast of Peru.
• May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.

July - December

• September 1 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
• November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.

Undated

• Civil war begins in the Inca Empire.
• Atahualpa wins the Inca civil war over Huáscar.
• The Prince is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavelli.
• Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais.
• The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into France.
• Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.

Births

• February 19 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the Pléiade (d. 1589)
• 7 June - Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1560)
• June 24
  • Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1588)
  • William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), German Protestant leader (d. 1592)
• December 26 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
• date unknown
  • Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (d. 1613)
  • William Cardinal Allen, English cardinal (d. 1594)
  • Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (d. 1585)
  • Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (d. 1597)
  • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (d. 1602)
  • John Hawkins, English navigator (d. 1595)
  • Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (d. 1573)
  • Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1585)
  • Thomas Norton, English lawyer (d. 1584)
  • Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (d. 1588)
  • Tulsidas, medieval Hindi poet and philosopher (d. 1623)
  • Flavio Orsini, Italian cardinal (d. 1581)
• probable
  • Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian portrait painter (d. 1625)
  • Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (d. 1575)

Deaths

• January 31 - Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (b. 1460)
• May - Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex
• August 16 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
• August 22 - William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1450)
• September - Vlad Înecatul, Prince of Wallachia
• October 1 - Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter
• December 11 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
• December 30 - Krzysztof Szydłowiecki, Polish noble (b. 1467)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1470)
  • Huáscar, 12^th Inca Emperor
  • Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (b. 1482)

See also Category: 1532 deaths.