* June 3 – Francisco de Ibarra, Spanish explorer and colonial governor in Mexico ( b. c. 1539 )

* 1539: Francisco de Ulloa explores both coasts.

In July 1539, moved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels.

In 1539, Francisco de Ulloa, who had been commissioned by Hernán Cortés, discovered the Gulf of California and reached as far north as the 28th parallel.

In 1539, Cortés sent the navigator Francisco de Ulloa northward along the Gulf and Pacific coasts of Baja California.

Route of the 1539 voyage by Francisco de Ulloa from ( Acapulco ) along the west coast of Mexico

In 1539, Francisco de Ulloa, sailing under the commission of Cortés, explored the Gulf of California and the coast of Baja California peninsula, determining that it was a peninsula, not an island.

In 1539, another voyage financed and sponsored by Cortés, and led by Francisco de Ulloa, embarked on an expedition in three small vessels, sailing north from Acapulco to explore the Pacific Coast, and to seek the Strait of Anián.

Zu Francisco de Vitorias " relectio de indis recenter inventis " von 1539.

* 1539 – Gonzalo Pizarro invades and sacks Vilcabamba ; Manco Inca escapes but Francisco Pizarro executes Manco's wife, Cura Olcollo

In late 1539, over the objections of Francisco Martínez and encouraged by some of his captains, Valdivia, using the intermediary services of a Mercedarian priest, requested official permission for Suárez to become a part of the group of 12 Spaniards he was leading to the South.

In 1539, when the Spanish expedition led by Francisco de Ulloa landed on the island, it encountered several villages with populations at each estimated in the hundreds.

The history of Arizona as recorded by Europeans began in 1539 with the first documented exploration of the area by Marcos de Niza, early work expanded the following year when Francisco Vásquez de Coronado entered the area as well.

Honda was founded on August 24, 1539 by Francisco Nuñez Pedroso.

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

* 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

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

* 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.

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In 1539, Hernando de Soto followed with his soldiers establishing San Marcos de Apalache.

Friar Marcos de Niza ( 1539 ) writing of the " Chichimecas ": that from time to time " they of this valley cast lots whose luck ( honour ) it shall be to be sacrificed, and they make him great cheer, on whom the lot falls, and with great joy they crown him with flowers upon a bed prepared in the said ditch all full of flowers and sweet herbs, on which they lay him along, and lay great store of dry wood on both sides of him, and set it on fire on either part, and so he dies " and " that the victim took great pleasure " in being sacrificed.

On 21 May 1539 at Fontainebleau, she married Sibeud de Tivoley, seigneur de Brenieu, who died after 1566, and by whom she had two daughters, surnamed de Brenieu-Suffolk.

Hernando de Soto crossed Otter Creek during his explorations of Florida in 1539.

Hernando de Soto passed through Ocale during his famous expedition through what is today the southeastern United States in 1539.

Having landed near present-day Panama City, Florida on May 30, 1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reputedly traveled up to what is now Spartanburg, South Carolina and north to western North Carolina.

* Bust of Cosimo I de ' Medici ( c. 1539 – 40 ) ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc.

Before the end of the month they had passed Baja Point ( named " Cabo del Engaño " by de Ulloa in 1539 ) and entered " uncharted waters, where no Spanish ships had been before ".

It was rebuilt by order of Cosimo I de ' Medici from 1539, and later enlarged by Bernardo Buontalenti.

The main Spanish document is called the Relación de Michoacán, written by Jerónimo de Alcalá based on what he was told by the P ’ urhépecha elite in 1539.

Confiscated by King Francis I, the countship was restored in 1538 to Louise de Bourbon, sister of the constable, and widow of the prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, and to her son Louis, and was erected into a duchy in the peerage of France ( duché-pairie ) in 1539.

His large house ( purchased in 1509 from the heirs of the astronomer Bernhard Walther ), where his workshop was located and where his widow lived until her death in 1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark.

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

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

The Council was postponed indefinitely on May 21, 1539.

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

Early in 1539, Frederick was married to Elizabeth of Mansfeld, but he died shortly afterwards, leaving no prospect of an heir.

In 1539 Alvarado and Montejo and had serious disagreements over who was governor, which caught the attention of the Council of India.

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

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.

This was not enough to satisfy Isabella, already in her mid-60s, so she returned to political life and ruled Solarolo, in Romagna until her death on 13 February 1539.

The second edition, published in 1539, was three times as long because he added chapters on subjects that appear in Melanchthon's Loci Communes.

Mary was courted by Duke Philip of Bavaria from late 1539, but Philip was Lutheran and his suit for her hand was unsuccessful.

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.

Church doctrine was restored to the form it had taken in the 1539 Six Articles, which, for example, re-affirmed clerical celibacy.

By the Edict of Villers-Cotterets ( 1539 ) it was decreed that the langue d ' oïl ( Northern French ) should be used for all French administration.

His son Virginio was a famous admiral for the Papal States and France, but in 1539 he had his fiefs confiscated under the charge of treason.

While he was still on the embassy to the Netherlands, Paul III created him the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 19 December 1539.

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.

Wilhelm von Brandenburg ( 30 June 1498 – 4 February 1563 ) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539 to 1561.

Year 1539 ( MDXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.