1533

This article is about the year 1533.

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1533 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1533 MDXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2286
Armenian calendar	982 ԹՎ ՋՁԲ
Assyrian calendar	6283
Balinese saka calendar	1454–1455
Bengali calendar	940
Berber calendar	2483
English Regnal year	24 Hen. 8 – 25 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2077
Burmese calendar	895
Byzantine calendar	7041–7042
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4229 or 4169     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4230 or 4170
Coptic calendar	1249–1250
Discordian calendar	2699
Ethiopian calendar	1525–1526
Hebrew calendar	5293–5294
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1589–1590
- Shaka Samvat	1454–1455
- Kali Yuga	4633–4634
Holocene calendar	11533
Igbo calendar	533–534
Iranian calendar	911–912
Islamic calendar	939–940
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 2 (天文２年)
Javanese calendar	1451–1452
Julian calendar	1533 MDXXXIII
Korean calendar	3866
Minguo calendar	379 before ROC 民前379年
Nanakshahi calendar	65
Thai solar calendar	2075–2076
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1659 or 1278 or 506     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1660 or 1279 or 507

July 26: Execution of Atahualpa.

Year 1533 (MDXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 25 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.
• January 26 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, is appointed Lord Chancellor of England.
• March 30 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
• May 23 – King Henry VIII of England's marriage with Catherine of Aragon is declared annulled by Archbishop Cranmer. Since Pope Clement VII had rejected Henry's petition for annulment in 1530, Catherine continues to believe herself Henry's wife until her death.
• June 1 – Cranmer crowns Anne Boleyn as queen consort of England, in Westminster Abbey.

July–December

• July 11 – Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII, as is Archbishop Cranmer.
• July 22 – Treaty of Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria: Ferdinand I, King of the Romans, withdraws his claims to most of Hungary and János Szapolyai, voivode of Transylvania, becomes King of Hungary under the suzerainty of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• July 26 – Sapa Inca Atahualpa is executed by garotte, at the orders of Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca. The Spanish arrange for his younger brother Túpac Huallpa to be crowned as a successor, but he dies of smallpox soon afterwards.
• September 7 – Anne Boleyn gives birth to Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth I of England.
• November 15 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cusco, Peru.
• December 3 – Ivan IV succeeds his father Vasili III as Grand Prince of Muscovy at the age of three years.
• December – Hernando de Grijalva and his crew discover the uninhabited Revillagigedo Islands, off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
  • December 21 (Feast of St Thomas the Apostle) – They discover Isla Santo Tomé, probably Socorro Island.
  • December 28 – They discover Isla de los Inocentes, probably San Benedicto Island.

Date unknown

• The Statute in Restraint of Appeals declares the king to be the supreme sovereign in England, and forbids judicial appeals to the papacy.
• Paracelsus interprets the Bible in Appenzell.
• Pechenga Monastery is founded, in the far north of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
• 1533–1534 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent makes the Ruthenian harem girl Roxelana his legal wife.

Births

Queen Elizabeth I

Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland

• January 2 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian (d. 1600)
• January 3 – Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza, Spanish friar, bishop and writer (d. 1624)
• January 6 – Timotheus Kirchner, German theologian (d. 1587)
• January 28 – Paul Luther, German scientist (d. 1593)
• February 5 – Andreas Dudith, Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (d. 1589)
• February 9 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
• February 16 – Gianfrancesco Gambara, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)
• February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (d. 1592)
• March 10 – Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1550)
• April 5 – Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1578)
• April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1604)
• April 24 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
• May 2 – Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1596)
• June 30 – Martín de Rada, Spanish missionary (d. 1578)
• July 10 – Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (d. 1611)
• August 2 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
• August 7
  • Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
  • Valentin Weigel, German theologian (d. 1588).
• September 5 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
• September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1603)
• September 15 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572)
• September 27 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586)
• October 9 – Henry V, Burgrave of Plauen (d. 1568)
• October 12 – Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese ruler (d. 1573)
• October 14 – Anna of Mecklenburg, duchess consort of Courland (1566-1587) (d. 1602)
• November 22 – Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1597)
• December 13 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
• date unknown – Eknath, Indian Marathi saint (d. 1599)
• probable
  • Amina, Queen of Zazzua (d. 1610)
  • David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1566)

Deaths

King Frederick I of Denmark

Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy

• March 19 – John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English soldier and statesman (b. 1467)
• April 10 – King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
• April 28 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
• April 30 – John George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (b. 1488)
• June 25 – Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
• July 4 – John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr (b. 1503)
• July 6 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
• August 8 – Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (b. 1494)
• July 26 – Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru (executed) (b. c.1502)
• September 6 – Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician and son-in-law of Lorenzo de' Medici (b. 1461)
• September 17 – Philip I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1479)
• September 20 – Veit Stoss, German sculptor (b. c. 1447)
• October 10 – Severinus of Saxony, Prince of Saxony; died young (b. 1522)
• October – Túpac Huallpa, puppet ruler of Peru
• December 3 – Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy (b. 1479)
• date unknown
  • Fortún Ximénez, Spanish sailor and mutineer
  • Anne Rud, Danish noble and defender
• probable – Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (b. 1477)