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1540
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1543
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Events
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Bible
in
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February 12
-
Pedro de Valdivia
founds
Santiago de Chile
.
May 8
-
Hernando de Soto
reaches the
Mississippi River
naming it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
May 23
-
Jacques Cartier
departs
Saint-Malo
France
on his third voyage.
August 29
- The
Janissaries
of
Suleiman the Magnificent
take Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as tourists.
Muslims
seal off
The Golden Gate
in
Jerusalem
.
Irish Parliament declares Ireland to be a kingdom
Births
March 21
-
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
(d.
1587
)
El Greco
-
Spanish
artist (d.
1614
)
Hatano Hideharu
-
Japanese
daimyo and samurai
Deaths
May 27
-
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury
, daughter of
George, Duke of Clarence
(executed) (b.
1374
)
June 26
-
Francisco Pizarro
, Spanish conquistador of
Peru
November 24
-
Margaret Tudor
, widowed Queen consort of King
James IV of Scotland
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