Events

• Spanish conquest of Yucatan
• Peace between England and France
• Foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge by Henry VIII of England
• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg

Science

Architecture

• Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.

Births

• July 4 - Murat III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1595)
• December 14 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
• Philippe Desportes, French poet (d. 1606)

Deaths

• January 21 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord
• February 18 - Martin Luther, religious reformer
• March 1 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1513)
• July 16 or 18 - Anne Askew, English religious reformer
• Khair ad Din "Barbarossa", corsair ruler of Algiers