1540 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1540?
- January 6, 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
- July 9, 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
- July 28, 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
- August 15, 1540 – Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
- September 27, 1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
Who Were Born In The Year 1540?
- January 24, 1540 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
- January 28, 1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
- June 3, 1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
- June 11, 1540 – Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
- August 5, 1540 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French philologist and historian (d. 1609)
- August 26, 1540 – King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
- October 1, 1540 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
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