1541 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1541?
- February 12, 1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
- April 7, 1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- May 8, 1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
- June 26, 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
- August 23, 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- August 29, 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- September 11, 1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonko.
- September 13, 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
- December 10, 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
Who Were Born In The Year 1541?
- January 26, 1541 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
- March 25, 1541 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
- April 8, 1541 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)
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