Events 1540

1 events

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown

events
january–june

january – dunstable priory falls prey henry viii of england s dissolution of monasteries.
january 6 – king henry viii of england marries anne of cleves, fourth queen consort.
february 14 – charles v, holy roman emperor, enters ghent without resistance, , executes rebels.
march – waltham abbey final priory fall prey dissolution of monasteries.
may 17 - battle of kannauj: sher shah suri defeats , deposes mughal emperor humayan, establishing sur empire.

july–december

july 7 – coronado captures hawikuh, @ time known part of cíbola, fails find legendary gold.
july 9 – king henry viii of england divorces anne of cleves, fourth queen consort.
july 28 – 1 of important political figures of reign of henry viii of england, thomas cromwell, executed on order king, on charges of treason. henry marries fifth wife, catherine howard, on same day.
august 15 - in peru, spanish captain garcí manuel de carbajal founded villa hermosa de arequipa, , 1 year after, charles v of germany , of spain gave valley status of city royal decree.
september – gibraltar sacked fleet of barbary pirate ali hamet, sardinian renegade in service of ottoman empire, , many of leading citizens taken captives peñón de vélez de la gomera in morocco. leads construction of defensive charles v wall, @ time known muralla de san benito.
september 3 – gelawdewos succeeds father lebna dengel, emperor of ethiopia.
september 27 – society of jesus (jesuits) approved pope paul iii, in bull regimini militantis ecclesiae.
october 1 – battle of alborán: habsburg spanish fleet, under command of bernardino de mendoza, destroys ottoman fleet, commanded ali hamet, off alborán island in mediterranean.
october 18 – expedition led spanish conquistador hernando de soto destroys fortified village of mabila in modern-day alabama, killing paramount chief tuskaloosa.

date unknown

antwerp besieged 3 days, maarten van rossum.
georg joachim rheticus publishes de libris revolutionum copernici narratio prima in danzig, abstract of copernicus yet unpublished de revolutionibus orbium coelestium, , first printed publication of copernican heliocentrism.
europe hit heat wave , drought lasting 7 months. rivers such rhine , seine dry up, , many people die dysentery , other illnesses, caused lack of safe drinking water. however, year s vintage würzburger stein , other vineyards particularly notable.
martin luther expels theologian caspar schwenckfeld silesia.
paracelsus visits villach.
approximate date – musket introduced japan europe.