1542 e.v.

The first contact of Japan with the West occurs when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, lands Fernão Mendes Pinto, Francisco Zeimoto and António Mota in Japan. Toda Kazuaki, Japanese samurai in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is born (will die in 1604). Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese daimyō, is born (will die in 1611). Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, is born (will die in 1600)

Pope Paul III establishes the Holy Office, with jurisdiction over the Roman Inquisition.

Bartolomé de las Casas completes *A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies*, which will be published in 1552.

Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver, is born (will die in 1601)

Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, is born (will die in 1608). John Speed, English historian, is born (will die in 1629)

Dosso Dossi, Italian painter, dies (was born in 1490)

Lucas Fernández, Spanish dramatist and musician, dies (was born in 1474)

Lapulapu, Filipino king, dies (was born in 1491)

## January

### 21st

Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord, dies (was born in 1491)

## February

Nikolaus Federmann, German adventurer in Venezuela and Colombia, dies (was born in 1501)

### 1st

John Scudamore, English politician, is born (will die in 1623)

Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal, dies (was born in 1480)

### 2nd

**Battle of Baçente:** The Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia.

### 13th

Catherine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII of England, is executed (was born in 1522)

Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, English noblewoman, is executed (was born in 1505)

### 14th

Guadalajara, Mexico, is founded by the Spaniards after three previous attempts failed, due to aggressive opposition from local tribes.

### 22nd

Santino Garsi da Parma, Italian musician, is born (will die in 1604)

## March

**Renyin palace rebellion:** A group of Ming Dynasty palace women fail to murder the Jiajing Emperor, and are executed by slow-slicing.

### 3rd

Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of King Edward IV of England, is born.

### 8th

Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople, with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

### 19th

Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman, is born (will die in 1605)

## April

### 4th–16th

**Battle of Jarte in Ethiopia:** The Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama encounter the army of Imam Ahmad Gragn, and inflict upon him two successive defeats.

### 29th

Henry III, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, is born (will die in 1587)

## May

### 5th

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician, is born (will die in 1623)

### 11th

Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee, Swiss Catholic bishop, is born (will die in 1608)

### 16th

Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman, daughter of Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg, is born (will die in 1580)

### 19th

The Prome Kingdom, in modern-day central Burma, is conquered by the Taungoo Dynasty.

### 21st

Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer, navigator and conquistador, is born (will die in 1500)

## June

### 14th

Christoph von Scheurl, German writer, is born (will die in 1481)

### 15th

Richard Grenville, English politician, is born (will die in 1591)

### 19th

Leo Jud, Swiss reformer, dies (was born in 1482)

### 24th

John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic, theologian, poet, is born (will die in 1591)

### 27th

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo mistook California for an island and claimed it for Spain.

## July

### 15th

Lisa del Giocondo, Florentine noblewoman, believed to be the subject of the *Mona Lisa*, dies (was born in 1479)

### 24th

**Guelders Wars:** Maarten van Rossum leaves Antwerp, having failed to take it by siege.

### 25th

Magnus, Duke of Östergötland, Swedish prince, is born (will die in 1595)

## August

**Battle of the Hill of the Jews:** During the rainy season, Cristóvão da Gama captures a strategic position and many badly needed horses.

### 18th

Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, is born (will die in 1601)

### 24th

**Battle of Haddon Rig:** Scotland defeats England.

Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal, dies (was born in 1483)

### 27th

Citizens of Hildesheim in the Holy Roman Empire profess themselves to the Lutheran teachings. As a pledge owner, the city provides for the carrying out of the Protestant Reformation in the city and Peine. Priests from the localities of Clauen, Hohenhameln, Soßmar, Schmedenstedt, Lengede and Rosenthal resume their offices in the interest of the Reformation.

John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania and Protestant Bishop of Cammin, is born (will die in 1600)

### 28th

**Battle of Wofla in Ethiopia:** Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp. The Portuguese are scattered; Cristóvão da Gama is captured and executed.

### 29th

Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese soldier, dies (was born in 1516)

### 31st

Isabella de' Medici, Italian princess, is born (will die in 1576)

## September

### 4th

The earliest recorded Preston Guild Court is held in Lancashire, England, in the modern sequence, which lasts unbroken until 1922.

### 21st

Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet, dies (was born in 1490)

### 25th

Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, sister of William the Silent, is born (will die in 1603)

### 28th

Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo lands in what is now San Diego Bay, and names it "San Miguel"; it will later become the city of San Diego.

## October

1st

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Spanish explorer, is born (will die in 1595)

4th

Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint, is born (will die in 1621)

### 7th

Cabrillo becomes the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, California.

### 11th

Thomas Wyatt, English poet and diplomat, dies (was born in 1503)

### 14th

Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, is born (will die in 1602)

### 15th

Akbar, Mughal Emperor, is born (will die in 1605)

### 18th

Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest, dies (was born in 1493)

### 31st

Henriette of Cleves, Duchess of Nevers, Countess of Rethel, is born (will die in 1601)

## November

### 1st

Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer, is born (will die in 1617)

### 9th

Anders Sørensen Vedel, Danish historian, is born (will die in 1616)

### 11th

Scipione Gonzaga, Italian Catholic cardinal, is born (will die in 1593)

### 24th

**Battle of Solway Moss:** An English army invades Scotland, and defeats a Scottish army.

## December

### 8th

Mary, Queen of Scots, is born (will die in 1587)

### 14th

Mary, Queen of Scots, aged six days, becomes queen regnant on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.

### 16th

Thomas Lovett III, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, dies (was born in 1473)

### 21st

Thomas Allen, English mathematician and astrologer, is born (will die in 1632)

### 22nd

Hieronymus Łaski, Polish diplomat, dies (was born in 1496)

## The Symphony That Never Ends

Lilith frees the demons and is killed in a joint operation by Uriel and Legion. It is known as the "Green Death" because Uriel spends centuries slaughtering lilim, destroying Freedom's outposts, and generally harassing Lilith before setting her up to be ambushed and killed by Legion this year.