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

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

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.

After the fall of Pagan, the Mon language again became the lingua franca of independent Mon kingdom of Hanthawaddy Bago ( 1287 – 1539 ) in the present day Lower Burma.

Henry VIII became concerned with the threat of French invasion during 1539 and was familiar with the more modern continental designs.

There he became a Doctor of Medicine in 1539.

* 1539: The electors and Berlin officially became Lutheran.

In 1539 the monastery was bought by Sir John Horsey and became a conventional church.

In September 1539 he became canon at Breslau, where he died.

João Manuel was born in 3 June 1537 in Évora and became the heir to the throne of Portugal in 1539.

The Priory existed until 1539 ; in 1540 the monastery at Durham was dissolved and the Crown became Lord of the Manor.

In 1536 he was a singer at Chioggia Cathedral, and by 1539 he not only became a deacon, but also principal organist.

The last Abbot of Dunbrody was Alexander Devereux, who became Bishop of Ferns in 1539.

When Chelebi Lütfi Pasha became Grand Vizier in 1539, he appointed Sinan, who had previously served under his command, Architect of the Abode of Felicity.

After the conquest of Vaud in 1536 by Bern, Morges became the center of a bailiwick in 1539.

The church and school became the property of Tewkesbury Abbey around 1130 after becoming part of the Norman kingdom of Glamorgan but after the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII during the Reformation, it became independent from Tewkesbury in 1539.

After its closure in 1539, it became the manor house of West Llantwit owned by Edward Stradling.

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.

In 1539, he became superintendent of the Lutheran Church in Saxony.

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

With the introduction of the Reformation into Saxony in 1539, Anton Lauterbach, a friend of Martin Luther's, became pastor and superintendent.

He became chaplain to Cardinal Pole and lived with him at Rome, was attainted in 1539, but returned to England on Mary's accession, and in 1555 became bishop of St Asaph, a diocese, largely within Wales, which he did much to win back to the Roman Catholic Church.

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 ”.

Daniel () ( before 1492 – May 22, 1547 ) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia in 1522 – 1539 and representative of the belligerent ecclesiastic circles interested in alliance with the princely authority.

His work was largely used by those who prepared the Great Bible ( 1539 – 40 ), and from this came the Bishops ' Bible ( 1568 ) and the King James Version.

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

* 1539 – Publication of the Great Bible, the first officially authorised Bible in English, edited by Myles Coverdale, largely from the work of Tyndale.

The later work may be connected with Nicolas Roy, a French mason sent to Scotland in March 1539 by Antoinette of Bourbon, the mother of Mary of Guise.

His latest work, a Judge Dredd episode, appeared in 2000AD prog 1539.

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.

The abbey was only surrendered to Henry VIII in 1539, so that before the year was out the work of spoliation had begun, and the abbot ’ s brass had been removed and re-engraved to Margaret Bulstrode.

Aware that these complaints derived from malice, Cromwell protected Mason, and throughout 1539 and 1540 the secretary remained at work in the Netherlands.

Paul III, who encouraged astrologers to come to Rome and work under his protection, made Gaurico his unofficial astrologer, and he was made a Papal Table Companion, knighted, and appointed bishop of Giffoni ( Salerno province ), and thus described as Episcopus Geophonensis, in 1539.

Preparations for her coronation began in October 1539 when the jeweller John Mosman made a new crown and her silver sceptre was gilded.

Sir Martin Frobisher ( c. 1535 or 1539 – 15 November 1594 ) was an English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage.

He was given the authority to do this in England and Wales by the Act of Supremacy, passed by Parliament in 1534, which made him Supreme Head of the Church in England, thus separating England from Papal authority ; and by the First Suppression Act ( 1536 ) and the Second Suppression Act ( 1539 ).

He subsequently made a number of journeys in England: the exact sequence and their dates are again uncertain, but there seem to have been five major English itineraries, taken over the summers of the years 1539 to 1543.

When the nunnery was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539, the manor was given to Thomas, Lord Cromwell a few days before he was made Earl of Essex.

In the past, if a person who was not a peer was to be appointed to the office of Lord Chancellor, he would be raised to the peerage upon receiving the appointment, though provision was made in 1539 for non-peers who hold the Great Offices of State to sit in between the benches in the House.

In July 1539 he was made High Steward of Cornwall, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries.

In the west Manus made unceasing efforts to assert the supremacy of the O ' Donnells in north Connacht, where he compelled O ' Conor Sligo to acknowledge his over-lordship in 1539.

Villers-Cotterêts is famous because of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts 1539 signed by king Francis I of France (' François Ier ') which made French the official language in the kingdom instead of regional languages like Occitan and also Latin.

In 1539, though inclining himself to the Reformation, he made himself the King ’ s instrument in enforcing religious conformity, and in the passing of the Six Articles Act.

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.

• Salt House or Cereal House ( Polish: Dom Solny / Dom Zbożowy ) ( 1539 ), a building made of basalt

The abbey was stripped of its valuables and Abbot Richard Whiting ( Whyting ), who had been a signatory to the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII the head of the church, resisted and was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor on 15 November 1539.

Although the synod made a further effort to reclaim him in 1539, he stayed there for the rest of his life, until his death in 1543.

The kings of Taungoo made Bago their royal capital from 1539 – 1599, and used it as a base for their repeated invasions of Siam.

She used her influence to elevate and enrich her family, her uncle, Antoine Sanguin ( d. 1559 ), being made bishop of Orléans in 1533 and a cardinal in 1539 ; her three brothers were made bishops and two sisters were abbesses, the other sisters making great marriages.

Still in Rome, in January 1539, he probably was made a member of the Julian Chapel ( the records give his name as " Jacobus flandrus ", suggesting a Flemish origin, but it cannot be known with certainty if this record referred to Arcadelt ).

Among the elites, Latin was still the language of education, administration, and bureaucracy ; this changed in 1539, with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, in which François I made French alone the language for legal and juridical acts.

The reconmendation that a castle be built on Hurst Point was made in 1539 by William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton and William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester.

( In 1539, with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, Francis I of France made French alone the language for legal and juridical acts.

D3270 / 4 Tripartite Deed ( 1539 / 40 ) 11 January 31 Henry VIII, 1539 – 40, between Dame Joan Cooke, the Mayor and Burgesses of Gloucester, and the Bailiffs and Citizens of Worcester, as to the endowments made for the benefit of the Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester, and for the proper administration of the school lands.

The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts of 1539 made French the administrative language of the kingdom of France for legal documents and laws.