* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.

The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio ( Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine ) was published at Basel in March 1536.

Catharine of Aragon ( Castilian: Catalina de Aragón ; ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 ) was the Spanish Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 ( 8 ), 1519 – 1536

* 1485 – Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England ( d. 1536 )

* 1536 – Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar ( d. 1584 )

– 12 July 1536 ), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.

* 1536 – Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai and Oda clan retainer ( d. 1588 )

* 1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.

* Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1460 – 1536 ), or Friedrich V, Margrave von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

# Frederick ( 17 January 1497, Ansbach – 20 August 1536, Genoa ), a canon in Würzburg and Salzburg.

* Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( June 17, 1536 – June 1591 in Kloster Himmelkron )

* 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.

* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

* 1460 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1536 )

* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.

* 1536 – King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.

* 1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.

* 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet ( b. 1498 )

* 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.

* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest.

* 1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun ( d. 1565 )

Notable are those of Martin Luther ( 1522 ), Jacques Lefèvre d ' Étaples ( 1523 ), the Froschau Bible ( 1525 – 1529, revised in 1574 ), William Tyndale ( 1526, revised in 1534, 1535 and 1536 ), the Brest Bible ( 1563 ), and the Authorized Version ( also called the " King James Version ") ( 1611 ).

Thomas Cromwell stepped in again, claiming that Anne had taken lovers during her marriage to Henry, and she was tried for high treason, witchcraft and incest ; these charges were most likely fabricated, but she was found guilty, and executed in 1536.

* April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet ( b. 1536 )

* June 2 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( b. 1536 )

He was tried on a charge of heresy in 1536 and condemned to death, despite Thomas Cromwell's intercession on his behalf.

He succeeded Anne Boleyn's father, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire as Lord Privy Seal on 2 July 1536, resigning the office of Master of the Rolls, which he had held since 8 October 1534.

The Ten Articles were published in 1536 by Thomas Cranmer.

* Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( 1536 – 1572 ), English nobleman

In 1536 his first son, Thomas ( later 4th Duke of Norfolk ), was born, Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and treason, and the Duke of Richmond died at the age of 17 and was buried at one of the Howard homes, Thetford Abbey.

* Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( 10 March 1536 – 2 June 1572 ) married ( 1 ) Mary FitzAlan ( 2 ) Margaret Audley ( 3 ) Elizabeth Leyburne

In 1536, not long after the First Suppression Act commanding the dissolution of lesser monasteries was passed, Leland lamented the spoliation of monastic libraries and addressed Thomas Cromwell in a letter seeking aid for the rescue of books.

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1536, ownership of the site was transferred to Sir Thomas Wyatt of nearby Allington Castle.

Thomas Howard's niece, Queen Anne Boleyn, fell from power in May 1536.

* Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex ( 1536 – 1540 )

* April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet ( born 1536 )

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( third creation ), KG, Earl Marshal ( 10 March 1536 – 2 June 1572 ) was an English nobleman.

After Margaret's death, Norfolk married Elizabeth Leyburne ( 1536 – 4 September 1567 ), widow of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gillesland.

Thomas Cromwell, as Vicar General, launched a commission of enquiry into the nature and value of all ecclesiastical property in 1535, which culminated in the Dissolution of the Monasteries ( 1536 – 1540 ).

Separated from his Catholic friends, Rastell does not seem to have been fully trusted by the opposite party, for in a letter to Thomas Cromwell, written probably in 1536, he says that he had spent his time in upholding the king's cause and opposing the pope, with the result that he had lost both his printing business and his legal practice, and was reduced to poverty.

* Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 1536 – 1537

In 1531 he produced The Boke named the Governour, dedicated to King Henry VIII which was printed by Thomas Berthelet ( 1531, 1534, 1536, 1544, etc .).

Abbot Thomas Stevens and his seven monks were forced to surrender their house to the king in the summer of 1536.

Abbot Thomas was appointed abbot of Beaulieu in 1536 and administered it for two years until it in turn was forced to surrender to the king in April 1538.

1536 and died in 1554, was buried 16 January 1554 ; she married as his first wife Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, before 1 November 1545, without issue.

After William Wyggeston's death in 1536, his brother Thomas Wyggeston, as a trustee, used part of the money to establish a grammar school in Leicester.