Life In Good Measure

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Data for 1536

Monument of Pedro de Mendoza in Buenos Aires. Photo courtesy: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0,

In the year 1536, Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires (Feb 2), the Inquisition is implemented in Portugal (Apr 30), Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England, is arrested on the grounds of incest, adultery and treason (May 2), later executed, and Henry marries Jane Seymour (May 30), English Bible translator William Tyndale is burned at the stake in Vilvoorde, Flanders (Oct 6) - and all these fine people were born:

1536-0202 Scévole de Sainte-Marthe* poet – Loudun, France (1623/87)
1536-0202 Piotr Skarga* preacher/hagiogapher – Grójec, Kingdom of Poland (1612/76)
1536-0224 Pope Clement VIII* (b Ippolito Aldobrandini) canon lawyer/possibly the first pope to drink coffee - Fano, Marche, Papal States (1605/69)

1536-0331 Ashikaga Yoshiteru* 足利 義輝 the 13th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate – Japan (1365/29)

1536-0513 Jacobus Pamelius* Flemish theologian – Bruges, County of Flanders (1587/51)

1536-0810 Caspar Olevian* German theologian - Trier (1587/50)

1536-1018 William Lambarde* antiquarian/ writer/politician – London, England (1601/64)
1536-1028 Felix Platter* Swiss physician/the first to describe a meningioma – Basel (1614/77) 

1536-1203 Santi di Tito* Italian painter – Florence (1603/66) 

Updated 17.10.2022
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