* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* Lucia ( 1537 – 1539 )

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

* 1539 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter ( d. 1584 )

In early 1578, the regency was taken over by his cousin, George Frederick of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ( 1539 – 1603 ).

# Georg " der Bärtige " ( b. Meissen, 27 August 1471 – d. Dresden, 17 April 1539 ).

* 1539 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian ( d. 1604 )

# Anna ( 5 May 1487, Ansbach – 7 February 1539 ), married on 1 December 1518 to Duke Wenceslaus II of Cieszyn.

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( April 5, 1539, Ansbach – April 25, 1603 ) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

* George Frederick ( 1539 – 1603 ), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Regent of the Duchy of Prussia.

George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony ( Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539 ), was duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539.

# Frederick ( b. Dresden, 15 March 1504 – d. Dresden, 26 February 1539 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 27 January 1539 to Elisabeth of Mansfeld.

Image: Pine Trees. jpg | Pine Trees, six sided screen, by Hasegawa Tohaku ( 1539 – 1610 ), Japanese

Isabella d ' Este ( 19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539 ) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.

* 1539 – Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.

* 1466 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer ( d. 1539 )

* 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

* 1539 – Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

* 1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.

In 1539 – 42 Hernando de Soto crossed much of the South from Georgia to Arkansas.

* 1474 – Isabella d ' Este, Marquise of Mantua ( d. 1539 )

In 1539, the electors and the city officially became Lutheran.

Although native to Ghent, he punished the city after the 1539 Revolt of Ghent and obliged the city's nobles to walk in front of the emperor barefoot with a noose ( Dutch: strop ) around the neck ; since this incident, the people of Ghent have been called " Stroppendragers " ( noose bearers ).

Vasco da Gama's body was first buried at St. Francis Church, which was located at Fort Kochi in the city of Kochi, but his remains were returned to Portugal in 1539.

A large group of Italian architects and craftsmen continuously worked in Moscow in 1474 – 1539, as well as Greek refugees that arrived in the city after the fall of Constantinople.

The Spanish invaders founded the city of " Our Lady of Las Dopicos " in 1539, which was actually near Tenuzco, the capital of the Pazteca empire.

However, since there was a cathedral in the city of Puebla and not in Tlaxcala, the seat was moved to Puebla in 1539 and has remained there since.

Following the suppression of the Pilgrimage of Grace, from 1539, it met at the former house of the Abbot of St. Mary's Abbey, York ( founded by the Lord of Richmond ) in the centre of that city ; after the dissolution of the abbey, the building had been retained by the king who formally allocated it to the Council.

In 1539, he bought " Riesenburg ", a minor fortification outside of the city, whose buildings still bear his name today.

The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts () is an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of France on August 10, 1539 in the city of Villers-Cotterêts.

The city of Huanuco, capital of the department was founded on August 15, 1539.

In 1539, Spaniard Alonso de Alvarado reached the Mayo River and founded a city he named Santiago de los Valles de Moyobamba, which later became the capital of Maynas.

Together with Sebastián de Belalcázar, Federmann re-founded the city of Bogotá on April 27, 1539 after Jiménez de Quesada failed to fulfill the official requirements of the Spanish Crown concerning the founding of a settlement when he attempted to establish a first Bogotá on August 6, 1538.

The town was first mentioned in 961 and became a city ( received Stadtrecht ) in 1539.

Of Lombard origin, the city was ruled by the Torelli family from 1406 to 1539, when it became the capital of a duchy under the Gonzaga family and housed artists like Guercino and Torquato Tasso.

Vilcabamba or Espíritu Pampa ( from Quechua: Willkapampa, " sacred valley ") was a city founded by Manco Inca in 1539 and was the last refuge of the Inca Empire until it fell to the Spaniards in 1572, signaling the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule.

This Colombian historical city was founded on August 6, 1539 by the Spanish captain, Gonzalo Suarez Rendon, in the domain of " El Zaque ", one of the chiefs of the Muiscas tribe.

Later he served as the main guide for a return expedition to the southwest where he was killed in the Zuni city of Hawikuh in 1539.

The city of Huánuco was founded by Spanish conquistador Gómez de Alvarado in 1539, in the Inca town of Yarowilca.

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary notes that according to legend the city of Nakhchivan was founded by Noah, and the date of the town on the Persian sources in 1539 BC.

The city was refounded in 1539 by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa on a hill overlooking the gulf.

In 1539, the city became part of the Kingdom of Taungoo.

According to historian Marcos Gonzales, Bogotá was one of the first cities in the continent in celebrating its own carnival and that in 1539, just one year after the Hispanic foundation of the city the Spanish Crown decreed the celebrations will be carried out in Lent with the name of Carnestolendas of Santafé de Bogotá.

He died on 26 August 1539 and was buried in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny city.

The Jews of Nagyszombat ( Trnava ) soon shared a similar fate, being first punished for alleged ritual murder and then expelled from the city ( February 19, 1539 ).