1534

October 4: Martin Luther's complete translation of the Bible into German goes on sale at Wittenberg.
1534 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1534
MDXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2287
Armenian calendar983
ԹՎ ՋՁԳ
Assyrian calendar6284
Balinese saka calendar1455–1456
Bengali calendar940–941
Berber calendar2484
English Regnal year25 Hen. 8 – 26 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2078
Burmese calendar896
Byzantine calendar7042–7043
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4231 or 4024
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4232 or 4025
Coptic calendar1250–1251
Discordian calendar2700
Ethiopian calendar1526–1527
Hebrew calendar5294–5295
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1590–1591
 - Shaka Samvat1455–1456
 - Kali Yuga4634–4635
Holocene calendar11534
Igbo calendar534–535
Iranian calendar912–913
Islamic calendar940–941
Japanese calendarTenbun 3
(天文3年)
Javanese calendar1452–1453
Julian calendar1534
MDXXXIV
Korean calendar3867
Minguo calendar378 before ROC
民前378年
Nanakshahi calendar66
Thai solar calendar2076–2077
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Water-Snake)
1660 or 1279 or 507
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Horse)
1661 or 1280 or 508
The Church of England separates from the Roman Catholic Church

Year 1534 (MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 15 – The Parliament of England passes the Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession, recognising the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and their children as the legitimate heirs to the throne.[1]
  • February 23 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster, Westphalia and declare it The New Jerusalem, begin to exile dissenters, and forcibly baptize all others.
  • March 10 – The Portuguese crown divides Colonial Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies, hereditary titles similar to duchies.[2]
  • March 30 – The Submission of the Clergy Act 1533 becomes law in England, requiring submission of the clergy, that is, churchmen are to submit to the king and the publication of ecclesiastical laws without royal permission is forbidden.[3]

April–June

  • April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Anabaptist Jan Matthys is killed by the Landsknechte, who laid siege to Münster on the day he predicted as the Second Coming of Christ. His follower John of Leiden takes control of the city.
  • April 13 – Sir Thomas More, having been brought before a royal commission to swear his allegiance to the Act of Succession, testifies that he accepts Parliament's right to declare Anne Boleyn the legitimate Queen of England, but denies that the marriage is spiritually valid of the king's second marriage".[4] Holding fast to the Roman Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy, More refuses to take the oath of supremacy toward King Henry VIII. More is confined in the Tower of London. He will be executed on July 6, 1535.
  • May 10Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland, while searching for the Northwest Passage.[5]

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

Archduchess Eleanor of Austria

Deaths

Pope Clement VII

References

  1. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 210–215. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ Rodrigo Ricupero, A Formação da Elite Colonial no Brasil (de 1530 a 1630) (Almedina Brasil, 2020), quoting Doacaoes e Forais das Capitanias do Brasil (1534-1536), transcribed by Maria Jose Chorao (National Archive of Torre to Tombo, 1999) p.11
  3. ^ The Submission of the Clergy Act 1533, as amended, from the National Archives
  4. ^ George M. Logan, ed. (2011). The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-139-82848-2.
  5. ^ a b c Cartier, Jacques (1993). Ramsay Cook (ed.). The Voyages of Jacques Cartier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5015-8.
  6. ^ Collins, W. E. (1903). "The Scandinavian North". In Ward, A. W.; Prothero, G. W.; Leathes, Stanley (eds.). The Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 599–638.
  7. ^ Pollard, A. F. (1903). "The conflict of creeds and parties in Germany". In Ward, A. W.; Prothero, G. W.; Leathes, Stanley (eds.). The Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 206–245.
  8. ^ McKitterick, David (1992). A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698. Cambridge University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-521-30801-4.
  9. ^ Francisco Javier Benjamín González Echeverría. "Documents of the Jesuits and of Michael de Villanueva (Servetus) in the register of the University of Paris". Michael Servetus Research. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  10. ^ Gilmar Soares Furtado, A Pesca Artesanal Na Ria De Aveiro Em Portugal E Na Laguna Manguaba ("Artisan fishing in the Ria de Aveiro in Portugal and in the Manguaba lagoon") (Clube de Autores, 2019)
  11. ^ "Martin Luther's 1522 September Testament as the Epoch-Making Foundation for a Quarter-Century of Wittenberg Bible Publication", by W. Gordon Campbell, in Martin Luther's Bible, ed. by W. Gordon Campbell (James Clarke Company, Ltd., 2024) p.45
  12. ^ Howard Hibbard (1974). Michelangelo. Harper & Row. p. 240. ISBN 9780713907810.
  13. ^ André Clot, Suleiman the Magnificent (Saqi Books, 2012)
  14. ^ "One Thousand Years of the Polish Jewish Experience" (PDF). Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
  15. ^ New (1993). Literature in English. Prentice-Hall Canada. p. 1567. ISBN 978-0-13-534777-5.
  16. ^ "Clement VII | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  17. ^ Sandi Toksvig (November 12, 2020). Toksvig's Almanac 2021: An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig. Orion. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-398-70164-9.