1541 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
February 12, 1541
– Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
April 7, 1541
– Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
May 8, 1541
– Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
June 26, 1541
– Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
August 23, 1541
– French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
August 29, 1541
– The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
September 11, 1541
– Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonko.
September 13, 1541
– After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
December 10, 1541
– Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
Who Were Born On ?
January 26, 1541
– Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
March 25, 1541
– Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
April 8, 1541
– Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)