Important Historical Events of the year 1536, Year 1536 in History

List of 1536 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1536

What happened in the year 1536?

Date Event
January 6, 1536 The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in Mexico City.
January 24, 1536 King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence.[5]
February 2, 1536 Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
April 5, 1536 Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.
May 2, 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
May 6, 1536 The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
May 15, 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest; she is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
May 17, 1536 George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
May 17, 1536 Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled.
May 19, 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
May 30, 1536 King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
July 6, 1536 The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo at the end of his second expedition to North America. He returns with none of the gold he expected to find.
July 16, 1536 Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
July 25, 1536 Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
August 13, 1536 Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Tenbun (天文) era).