1539 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
January 12, 1539
– Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
January 14, 1539
– Spain annexes Cuba.
April 27, 1539
– Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
May 30, 1539
– In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
June 3, 1539
– Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
June 10, 1539
– Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
Who Were Born On ?
March 25, 1539
– Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
April 7, 1539
– Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
November 1, 1539
– Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
December 5, 1539
– Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)