In 1537, Holbein painted what has become perhaps his most famous image: Henry VIII standing in a heroic pose with his feet planted apart.

The first famous native English portrait miniaturist is Nicholas Hilliard ( c. 1537 – 1619 ), whose work was conservative in style but very sensitive to the character of the sitter ; his best works are beautifully executed.

The most famous of all doom paintings, The Last Judgment by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, painted in 1537 to 1541, comes at the end of the tradition, and is unusually sited on the east wall behind the altar.

From 1537 to 1548, he created the famous organ tablature, whose title is Tabulatura Ioannis de Lyublyn Canonic Reglariu de Crasnyk.

Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – 1554 ), published his famous book I sette libri d ' architettura in 1537 in which he was the second to mention the Composite order as its own order and not just as an evolution of the Corinthian order as previously suggested by Leon Battista Alberti.

He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

It began on 29 August 1537, with 25, 000 soldiers from the Turkish fleet landing and pillaging the island and taking 20, 000 hostages as slaves.

Another good harbour is that of Drios on the south-east side, where the Turkish fleet used to anchor on its annual voyage through the Aegean during the period of Ottoman rule over Paros ( 1537 – 1832 ).

They gallantly but vainly defended it against the Turkish admiral Barbarossa in 1537.

On March 12, 1537, the city and the fortress was released to the Turk hands, many of the citizens left the town while the Uskoci went to the city of Senj on the Croatian coast, where they continued fighting the Turkish invaders.

After a considerable economic decline, in 1537, at the time of the Ottoman conquest, Požega reportedly had 110 houses and 15 businesses.

In 1537, commanding a large Ottoman fleet, Hayreddin Barbarossa captured a number of Aegean and Ionian islands belonging to the Republic of Venice, namely Syros, Aegina, Ios, Paros, Tinos, Karpathos, Kasos and Naxos, thus annexing the Duchy of Naxos to the Ottoman Empire.

In 1537, Paros was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and remained under the Ottoman Empire until the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 – 1829 ).

The historian Franz Babinger speculated that the work was designed by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, who is known to have built fortifications, including a similar tower at the Albanian port Valona in 1537.

The Venetian episode came to an end in 1537, when Antiparos and the rest of the Cyclades fell to the Ottomans, and it remained under Ottoman rule until the War of Independence in 1821, apart from a period of four years from 1770 – 1774 when it was ruled by the Russians, who removed many of the magnificent stalactites from the cave to the Hermitage Museum in Russia.

The Venieri gallantly but vainly defended the island of Paros against the massive onslaght of the Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa in 1537.

The Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent personally mounted an expedition in 1537, that destroyed or captured many surrounding villages but did not manage to subdue the area.

However, despite the privileges, the Himariotes revolted against Ottoman authority during the following conflicts: Turco-Venetian War ( 1537 – 1540 ), War of the Holy League ( 1571 ), Morean War ( 1684 – 1699 ) Ottoman – Venetian War ( 1715 – 1718 ) and the Russo-Turkish wars of the 18th century.

One of them, Ajaz Pasha, became Grand Vizier and was sent by the Ottoman Sultan to put down the 1537 revolt of Himariotes.

Little is also known of Sifnos during the Ottoman rule of the Cyclades from 1537 on.

* Ottoman – Venetian War ( 1537 – 1540 )

She was captured when the Turks conquered the Cyclades island of Páros, where she was born, during the 1537 war, abducted from there and taken to the royal harem of Ottoman Prince Selim II in Istanbul, where she was renamed " Afife Nûr-Banû ".

After the War of the Holy League in 1537 against the Ottoman Empire, a truce between Venice and the Ottomans was created in 1539.

In 1537, Suleyman the Magnificent declared war upon Venice and his admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa spread fire and sword upon the Ionian Islands, and in October fell upon the island of Aegina.

In 1452, Parga and the castle was occupied by the Ottomans for two years during which time part of the castle was demolished .. 1537, the pirate Hayreddin Barbarossa burnt and destroyed the fortress and the hoyses within.

He led the French troops in 1537 when they attacked Artois in the Netherlands and captured many towns before the ten-year truce.

When Almagro returned from Chile disappointed in not finding any gold, he captured and imprisoned Gonzalo and Hernándo in 1537.

In 1508 the hostile League of Cambrai compelled Venice to withdraw its garrison for home service, and after the overthrow of Hungary in 1526 the Turks were able easily to conquer the greater part of Dalmatia by 1537, when the Siege of Klis ended with the fall of the Klis Fortress to the Ottomans.

This proved an insufficient defense as the Turks seized Požega in 1537.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

In 1537, his translations were included in the Matthew Bible.

This exile lasted only until 1512, however, and the " senior " branch of the family — those descended from Cosimo the Elder — were able to rule on and off until the assassination of Alessandro de ' Medici, first Duke of Florence, in 1537.

In January 1537, Catherine and her step-children were held hostage at Snape Castle during the uprising of the North.

Problems began when King Frederick II of Prussia violated the Pragmatic Sanction and invaded Silesia on 16 December 1740, using the Treaty of Brieg of 1537 under which the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg were to inherit the Duchy of Brieg as a pretext.

The reformation was imposed on Norway in 1537 and the Dano-Norwegian rulers used it to also impose Danish culture ; this was effected through the pulpit as well as through written records, as pastors were trained in Copenhagen.

By the end of 1537 the Gabriel had been refitted ; additionally, two new ships, the Archangel Michael and the Nadezhda, had been constructed and were rapidly readied for a voyage to Japan, a country with which Russia had never had contact.

From then on, all dissolutions that were not a consequence of convictions for treason, were legally " voluntary "-a principle that was taken a stage further with the voluntary surrender of Lewes priory in November 1537, when for the first time the monks were offered life pensions if they co-operated, and were not accorded the option of transfer to another house.

Vermigli ( Peter Martyr ) and Marcantonio Flaminio were leading spirits in his coterie, which included the marchioness of Pescara Vittoria Colonna, ( April 1490-a widower since 1525-25 February 1547, aged 57 ), since 1537, and her younger widower sister-in-law, Giulia Gonzaga, ( 1513-marries 1526, aged 13-a widower since 1529, aged 16-16 April 1566, aged 53 ).

In domestic politics, Eric's ambitions were strongly opposed by the Swedish nobility, including his half-brother, the later John III of Sweden ( 1537 – 92 ).

Based on the 1910 US census for Athens Township and Village there were 1537 residents, of whom 5 were listed as mulattos ( four of them children of a mulatto mother and white father ) and 69 were listed as Indians.

Mr W. Aldis Wright, however, judging from the facts that the name of Whytchurch was introduced, that the places of printing were given as London and Paris, not Antwerp, and lastly that Emanuel van Meteren being born in 1535 could only have derived his knowledge from hearsay, is inclined to think that the Bible in which J. van Meteren was interested “ was Matthew's of 1537 or the Great Bible of 1539, and not Coverdale's of 1535 ”.

This was probably the last time Caerleon castle was ruined, though the walls were still standing in 1537 and the castle ruins only finally collapsed in 1739-their most obvious remnant is the Round Tower at the Hanbury Arms public house.

Other survivors of these missions retired to nearby Lampaco ( Lampa ) in Guangdong, where a trade post would exist for several decades ; in 1537, there were written records of the Portuguese having three warehouses at Lampa, Shangchuan Island, and Macau, and were initially allowed there with the excuse of drying their goods in a storm.

The HAC can trace its history as far back as 1087, but it received a Royal Charter from Henry VIII on 25 August 1537, when Letters Patent were received by the Overseers of the Fraternity or Guild of St George authorising them to establish a perpetual corporation for the defence of the realm to be known as the Fraternity or Guild of Artillery of Longbows, Crossbows and Handgonnes.

They were even eaten by royalty, as a letter from a baker to Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour ( 1508 – 1537 ) confirms: "... hope this pasty reaches you in better condition than the last one ..." In his diaries written in the mid 17th century, Samuel Pepys makes several references to his consumption of pasties, for instance " dined at Sir W. Pen ’ s ... on a damned venison pasty, that stunk like a devil.

Furthermore, it has been established that there were several mills, a forest smithy, a limekiln ( mentioned in 1537 ) and a brickworks ( built in 1612 ).