1531

Centuries:	[[15Template:Ordinal/th century]] - [[16Template:Ordinal/th century]] - [[17Template:Ordinal/th century]]
Decades:	1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years:	1528 1529 1530 - 1531 - 1532 1533 1534

Events of 1531

January 26 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake in which five die.
February 27 - Lutheran princes in the Holy Roman Empire form a defensive alliance known as the Schmalkaldic League.
February (or March) - Battle of Antukyah between Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of Adal and an Ethiopian army.
February 11 - Henry VIII of England recognised as supreme head of the Church of England.
April - Battle of Puná: Francisco Pizarro defeats the island's native inhabitants.
April 16 - The city of Puebla, Mexico was founded.
June 24 - The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico was founded.

July 25 - The city of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico was founded.
September 22 - In the Battle of Obertyn the Moldavians were defeated by Polish forces under Jan Amor Tarnowski, allowing the Polish Crown to retrieve Pokucie.
October 11 - In the Battle of Kappel the forces of Zürich were defeated by the Catholic cantons. Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss religious reformer, was killed.
October 28 - In the Battle of Amba Sel Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeated the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia thus fell under Imam Ahmad's control.
December 12 - The Virgin Mary in the guise of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism.

Andrea Alciato publishes the first part of his Emblemata.
The Comet Halley appears.
Conquistador Francisco de Montejo claims Chichen Itza as capital of Spanish ruled Yucatán.
University of Sarajevo is founded by Gazi Husrev-beg.
Kõpu lighthouse is completed.
An enormous drought in Henan province of China during the Ming Dynasty is coupled with the disaster of a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forcing many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying off by starvation.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system by pressure of Bartolome de Las Casas.

See also Category: 1531 births.

January 21 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (born 1487)
February 16 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician (born 1452)
March 6 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish colonial administrator (born c1440)
May 19 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
July 7 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor (born 1460)
July 17 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
July 23 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
October 10 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (born 1484)
September 22 - Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I of France (born 1476)
November 24 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (born 1482)
date unknown
- Vallabhacharya, founder of the Hindu Vallabha sect (born 1479)
probable
- Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish man of letters (born 1492)

See also Category: 1531 deaths.af:1531