1536

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1500s  1510s  1520s  – 1530s –  1540s  1550s  1560s
Years:	1533 1534 1535 – 1536 – 1537 1538 1539

1536 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1536 MDXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2289
Armenian calendar	985 ԹՎ ՋՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	6286
Balinese saka calendar	1457–1458
Bengali calendar	943
Berber calendar	2486
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 8 – 28 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2080
Burmese calendar	898
Byzantine calendar	7044–7045
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4232 or 4172     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4233 or 4173
Coptic calendar	1252–1253
Discordian calendar	2702
Ethiopian calendar	1528–1529
Hebrew calendar	5296–5297
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1592–1593
- Shaka Samvat	1457–1458
- Kali Yuga	4636–4637
Holocene calendar	11536
Igbo calendar	536–537
Iranian calendar	914–915
Islamic calendar	942–943
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 5 (天文５年)
Javanese calendar	1454–1455
Julian calendar	1536 MDXXXVI
Korean calendar	3869
Minguo calendar	376 before ROC 民前376年
Nanakshahi calendar	68
Thai solar calendar	2078–2079
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1662 or 1281 or 509     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1663 or 1282 or 510

1536 (MDXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1536th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 536th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1530s decade. As of the start of 1536, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• February 2 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• February 25 – Jacob Hutter burned in a stake for heresy
• May 19 – Execution of Anne Boleyn
• May 30 – Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour
• October 13 – The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske
• October 29 – Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England
• Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, including
• Basingwerk Abbey
• Bourne Abbey
• Brinkburn Priory
• Cartmel Priory
• Dore Abbey and
• The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary and St Chad
• Wales is united with England by an Act of Union
• Manco Capac II revolts from Spanish rule in Peru
• Resumption of war between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. Francis ceases control of Savoy and captures Turin.
• Protestantism introduced in Denmark
• Portuguese Crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.

Deaths

• January 7 – Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England.
• May 19 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England.
• Pargalı İbrahim Pasha Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.