1540 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
January 6, 1540
– King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
July 9, 1540
– King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
July 28, 1540
– Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
August 15, 1540
– Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
September 27, 1540
– The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
Who Were Born On ?
January 24, 1540
– Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
January 28, 1540
– Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
June 3, 1540
– Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
June 11, 1540
– Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
August 5, 1540
– Joseph Justus Scaliger, French philologist and historian (d. 1609)
August 26, 1540
– King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
October 1, 1540
– Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)