1539

Events 
 May 30 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold.
 Hernando de Soto introduces Pigs into North America
 May – 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation"
 September 4 – Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
 Lutheranism is forcefully introduced to Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jon Aresson.
 The town of Shuya was founded

 Births 
 November 1 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (died 1596)
 December 5 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, theologian (died 1604)
 Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese Jewish explorer (died 1590)
 Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)
 Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (died 1568)
 Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter (died 1610)
 Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (died 1578)
 Laurence Tomson, Calvinist (died 1608)

 Deaths 
 February 6 – John III, Duke of Cleves, born 3 August 1491
 March 12 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, diplomat, politician, and father of Anne Boleyn (born 1477)
 May 7 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
 May 7 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
 July 5 – St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (born 1502)
 September 8 – John Stokesley, English prelate (born 1475)
 James Beaton, Scottish church leader
 Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (born 1480)
 Hugh Cook Faringdon, Abbot of Reading
 George, Duke of Saxony (born 1471)
 Symeon Iwanowicz Trubczewski, governor of Kostroma
 Isabella d'Este, "First Lady of the Renaissance" (born 1474)