In the year 1537, Pope Paul III declares in his Sublimis Deus that the natives of the New World are rational beings with souls who mustn’t be enslaved or robbed (Jun 2), the Catholic rebellion in Norway ends with the Siege of Hamar (Jun 23), the Spanish conquistador Rodrigo Orgóñez occupies and sacks the Inca center of Vitcos, but Manco Inca Yupanqui escapes and establishes the independent Neo-Inca State (Jul), and the Spaniards bring the potato to Europe - and all these fine people were born:
1537-xxxx Jane Grey* teenage English noblewoman/claiment to the throne of England and Ireland - England (1554/c.16) year of birth could be 1536
1537-0101 Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski* Polish nobleman/Secretary of King Sigismund II Augustus (1567/30)
1537-0317 Toyotomi Hideyoshi* 豊臣 秀吉 samurai/ daimyo of the late Sengoku period/regarded as the second “Great Unifier” of Japan – Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan (1598/62)
1537-0501 Jacob Horst* German physician/writer - Torgau, Saxony (1600/63)
1537-0520 Hieronymus Fabricius* pioneering anatomist and surgeon known as “The Father of Embryology” - Acquapendente, Lazio, Papal States (1619/86) alternative birth year 1533
1537-0720 Arnaud d’Ossat* diplomat/ writer/Cardinal - Larroque, Casgony, Kingdom of France (1604/)
1537-0809 Francesco Barozzi* Italian mathematician/astronomer/humanist - Candia, Crete, Republic of Venice(1604/67)
1537-1012 Edward VI* King of England and Ireland/son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour/the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant - Hampton Court Palace, Middlesex, England (1553/15)
1537-1104 Jacob Flach* German mathematician/physician/botanist - Jena, Thuringia (1611/73)
1537-1121 Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo* Duke of Alba/commander in the Spanish army during the Eighty Years' War - Toledo, Spanish Empire (1583/46)
1537-1205 Ashikaga Yoshiaki* 足利 義昭 the 15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan/Buddhist monk - Japan (1597/59)
1537-1220 John III of Sweden* King of Sweden/son of Gustav Vasa – Stegeborg Castle, Sweden (1592/54)
Updated 30.5.2022
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