1541
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| Years: 1538 1539 1540 - 1541 - 1542 1543 1544 | |
| Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish
- 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.
- July 9 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlockmen and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
- August 29 - The Janissaries of Suleiman the Magnificent take Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as tourists.
- Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent seals off The Golden Gate in Jerusalem.
- Irish Parliament declares Ireland to be a kingdom
- October - The unsuccessful Algerian campaign of Charles V of Spain Gabsurg
Births
- January 26 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
- March 25 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1587)
- April 8 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (died 1593)
- Pierre Charron, French philosopher (died 1603)
- Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman (died 1576)
- El Greco, Greek-born artist (died 1614)
- Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (died 1579)
- Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (died 1600)
- Guðbrandur Þorláksson, mathematician
Deaths
- May 27 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (executed) (born 1473)
- June 26 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
- July 4 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (born 1495)
- August 1 - Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (born 1493)
- September 24 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
- November 24 - Margaret Tudor, queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489)
- Francisco Alvarez, Portuguese missionary and explorer (born 1465)
- Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, German reformer
- Jean Clouet, French miniature painter
- Thomas Culpeper, English courtier
- Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (born 1480)
- Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer
- Gendun Gyatso, 2nd Dalai Lama
- Jerzy Radziwill, Polish nobleman (born 1480)
- Amago Tsunehisa, Japanese warlord
- Juan de Valdés, Spanish religious writer (born 1500)
