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

* Lucia ( 1537 – 1539 )

* 1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada ( now Colombia ), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

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 )

Construction of the building began in 1546, as a legacy of Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera, who had died in 1539.

In 1881 the Roman Catholic mass was celebrated in Bodmin for the first time since 1539.

When the king saw Anne for the first time in late December 1539, a week before the scheduled wedding, he did not find her attractive but was unable, for diplomatic reasons and in the absence of a suitable pretext, to cancel the marriage.

He assisted the first efforts of the Reformation at Magdeburg ( 1524 ), at Goslar ( 1531 ) and at Einbeck ( 1534 ); took an active part in the debates at Schmalkalden ( 1537 ), where he defended the use of the sacrament by the unbelieving ; and ( 1539 ) spoke out strongly against the bigamy of the Landgrave of Hesse.

Olaus Magnus, who depicted the walrus in the Carta Marina in 1539, first referred to the walrus as the ros marus, probably a Latinization of morž, and this was adopted by Linnaeus in his binomial nomenclature.

* 1539 BC — Approximate first use of the Valley of the Kings.

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.

In April 1539 the first edition was finally available.

On 28 April 1539 Parliament met for the first time in three years.

Freedom of Press laws were first passed in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1539.

The first slaves, from the region of Guinea, arrived in Brazil in 1539.

Myles Coverdale was employed by Cromwell to work on the Great Bible of 1539, the first officially authorized English translation of the Bible.

The first edition was a run of 2, 500 copies that were begun in Paris in 1539.

The first Act of Parliament was obtained by the City of Canterbury, in 1515, to extend navigation on the River Stour in Kent, followed by the River Exe in 1539, which led to the construction in 1566 of a new channel, the Exeter Canal.

Photisarath himself allied himself with Burma, sent out 3 campaigns against Ayudhya, the first to Pitsanuloke in 1535, the second one to Vieng Prangarm in 1539, and third was sent in 1548 to Vieng Prab *** ( now Sawangaburi ) where he brought back 20, 000 families to settle in Lanxang kingdom.

The first Bailiff of Hemel Hempstead was William Stephyns ( 29 December 1539 ).

When Peterborough Monastery was dissolved in 1539 Abbot Chambers was made the first Bishop of Peterborough, and the following year Henry VIII granted three Commissions of the Peace to the coterminous Liberty of Peterborough.

It included the first " authorised version ", known as the Great Bible ( 1539 ); the Geneva Bible ( 1560 ), notable for being the first Bible divided into verses, and the Bishop's Bible ( 1568 ), which was an attempt by Elizabeth I to create a new authorised version.

He translated the first French edition of the Institutes in 1541, corresponding to his 1539 Latin edition, and supervised the translation of three later French translations.

In 1539 Francisco de Ulloa was the first European to discover the in what was the last expedition financed by Hernán Cortés.

The first permanent fort at Tilbury was a D-shaped blockhouse built in 1539 by Henry VIII and initially called the " Thermitage Bulwark ", because it was on the site of a hermitage dissolved in 1536.

The first permanent fort at Tilbury was a D-shaped blockhouse built in 1539 by Henry VIII and first called the ' Thermitage Bulwark ', because it was on the site of a hermitage dissolved in 1536.

The first conqueror to arrive was Nicholas Araucanian lands Federman in the year 1539, accompanied by George of Speyer, passing through the eastern mountains.