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1534 Calendar

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•  February 3, 1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
•  April 20, 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
•  May 10, 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
•  June 9, 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
•  June 29, 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
•  July 4, 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
•  July 7, 1534 – European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
•  July 24, 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
•  August 15, 1534 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
•  December 6, 1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.

•  February 5, 1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)
•  March 19, 1534 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil (d. 1597)
•  June 23, 1534 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
•  July 1, 1534 – King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig (d. 1588)
•  September 24, 1534 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)