These volumes gave the first clear, systematic survey of English plants, and with their admirable woodcuts ( mainly copied from Leonhart Fuchs's 1542 De historia Stirpium ) and detailed observations based on Turner's own field studies put the herbal on an altogether higher footing than in earlier works.

The scientific name avellana derives from the town of Avella in Italy, and was selected by Linnaeus from Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium commentarii insignes ( 1542 ), where the species was described as " Avellana nux sylvestris " (" wild nut of Avella ").

) The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes, 1542: Vol 1 & 2.

Typical examples from the period are the fully illustrated De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes by Leonhart Fuchs ( 1542, with over 400 plants ), the astrologically themed Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper ( 1653 ), and the Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell ( 1737 ).

In the course of his career Fuchs wrote De Historia Stirpium, which was published in 1542.

De Historia Stirpium ( 1542 with a German version in 1843 ) of Fuchs was a later publication with 509 high quality woodcuts that again paid close attention to botanical detail: it included many plants introduced to Germany in the sixteenth century that were new to science.

* Leonhard Fuchs, De historia stirpium ( Basel, 1542 ).

* Andreas Pevernage ( 1542 / 1543 – 1591 ), composer of the late Renaissance

In 1542 the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition was formed and a few years later the Index Librorum Prohibitorum banned a wide array of Renaissance works of literature, which marks the end of the illuminated manuscript together with Giulio Clovio, who is considered the greatest illuminator of the Italian High Renaissance, and arguably the last very notable artist in the long tradition of the illuminated manuscript, before some modern revivals.

Dosso Dossi ( c. 1490 – 1542 ), real name Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting.

The 16th century was marked by the actions of Jean de Laval, governor of Brittany from 1531 to 1542, who modified and built the three Renaissance wings of the castle for his wife Françoise de Foix.

* Dosso Dossi ( c. 1490 – 1542 ), an Italian High Renaissance painter

Gioseffo Guami ( January 27, 1542 – 1611 ) ( Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami or Gioseffo da Lucca ) was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School.

Ludwig Senfl ( born around 1486, died between December 2, 1542 and August 10, 1543 ) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany.

* Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter ( died 1542 )

His reign was fairly successful, until another disastrous campaign against England led to defeat at the battle of Solway Moss ( 1542 ).

In June 1542 Cabrillo led an expedition in two ships of his own design and construction from the west coast of what is now Mexico.

Financial difficulties led him to join the clergy, and in 1542, he became a canon at Modena's cathedral.

The first Europeans to see Big Sur were Spanish mariners led by Juan Cabrillo in 1542, who sailed up the coast without landing.

Jiajing's ruthlessness also led to an internal plot by his concubines to assassinate him in October, 1542 by strangling him while he slept.

He led raids into China in 1529, 1530 and 1542 returning with plunder and livestock.

Ermac Timofeyevich (; born between 1532 and 1542 – August 5 or 6, 1584 ) was a Cossack who led the Russian conquest of Siberia in the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

The Counter-Reformation, which had been operative in Rome since 1542, led to the introduction of a special court of the Inquisition at Ferrara, in 1545, through which, in 1550 and 1551, death sentences were decreed against Protestant sympathizers ( Fannio of Faenza and Giorgio of Sicily ), and executed by the secular arm.

His reign was fairly successful, until another disastrous campaign against England led to defeat at the battle of Solway Moss ( 1542 ).

His account is largely responsible for the passage of the new Spanish colonial laws known as the New Laws of 1542, which abolished native slavery for the first time in European colonial history and led to the Valladolid debate.

One step led to another, and, as all efforts at union with the Catholic Church failed, he appointed Martin Bucer his court preacher in Bonn in 1542, and sought out advice from Luther's compatriot, Philip Melanchthon.

Dackefejden ( or Dacke war ) was a peasant uprising led by Nils Dacke in Småland, Sweden, in 1542 against the rule of Gustav Vasa.

His 1542 book was an extraordinary event, and recognized as such at the time: it established five voices as the norm, rather than four, and it married the polyphonic texture of the Netherlandish motet with the Italian secular form, bringing a seriousness of tone which was to become one of the predominant trends in madrigal composition all the way into the seventeenth century.

In September 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo passed through the Rosarito Beach area on his way from Ensenada to San Diego Bay.

Among them there were ban Petar Berislavić who won a victory at Dubica on the Una river in 1513, the captain of Senj and prince of Klis Petar Kružić, who defended the Klis Fortress for almost 25 years, captain Nikola Jurišić who deterred by a magnitude larger Turkish force on their way to Vienna in 1532, or ban Nikola Šubić Zrinski who helped save Pest from occupation in 1542 and fought in the Battle of Szigetvar in 1566.

They landed by way of Scotland on 23 February 1542.

It was awarded to Thomas Cranmer in 1542, but reverted back to the crown when Cranmer was executed in 1556.

While evidence suggests human occupation as far back as 500 BC, the first maps of the area date to 1542, when it was labeled " Las Islas Sabines " by a Spanish cartographer.

On 23 November 1542, the little fleet limped back to " San Salvador " ( Santa Catalina Island ) to overwinter and make repairs.

He moved again to Treviso in 1542 and back to Venice in 1545.

In 1542 he began travelling back and forth between Germany and Italy for his research and studies, and also presented his great pharmacopoeia, Dispensatorium, to the Nuremberg city council.

Jesuit Education has a long history in India, stretching back to 1542, when Saint Paul's College, Goa was founded by Jesuit missionaries, headed by St Francis Xavier.

The Honour is historic, dating back at least as far as 1542 when a bill for its management was before parliament.

In Spain in 1542 Bartolomé de Las Casas argued against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the famous Valladolid debate, Sepúlveda mainted an Aristotelian view of humanity as divided into classes of different worth, while Las Casas argued in favor of equal rights to freedom of slavery for all humans regardless of race or religion.

Here he received an ambassador from the Emperor beseeching him to send help against the Muslims, and in July following a force of 400 musketeers, under the command of Christovão da Gama, younger brother of Estêvão, marched into the interior, and being joined by Ethiopian troops they were at first successful against the Muslims but they were subsequently defeated at the Battle of Wofla ( 28 August 1542 ), and their commander captured and executed.

Hernando de Soto ( c. 1496 / 1497 – 1542 ) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European documented to have crossed the Mississippi River.

Spain's administration of its colonies in the Americas was divided into the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1535 ( capital, México City ), and the Viceroyalty of Peru 1542 ( capital, Lima ).

This was abolished by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542 ( also known as the Acts of Union ), which organised the Marches of Wales into counties, adding some lordships to adjoining English counties.

Richmondshire's unification with the Principality of Wales and Kingdom of England into England and Wales was part of the same period as the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542, paralleled by the 1532 Union between Brittany and France, under Francis III, Duke of Brittany.

** House of Aberffraw of Gwynedd and Wales, c. 878-1282, Conquered by Edward I of England 1282, Annexed into England with Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542

* Diocese of Naumburg, Lutheran between 1542 and 1547 and from 1562 on, the pertaining prince-bishopric secularised and merged into the Electorate of Saxony in 1615

The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542 then consolidated the administration of all the Welsh territories and incorporated them fully into the legal system of the Kingdom of England.

Diana was published in Spanish in 1542, translated into French in 1578, and published in English in 1598, although the translation by Nicholas Collin was made some years earlier, probably in 1582.

Wales had been incorporated into the English legal system through the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542.

The county was divided into six hundreds in 1542:

On 24 November 1542, an army of 15, 000 – 18, 000 Scots advanced into England.

After the partition of Munster into Thomond and the MacCarthy Kingdom of Desmond by Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair in the 12th century, the dynasty would go on to provide around thirty monarchs of Thomond until 1542.

In 1542, Edward accompanied the Duke of Norfolk on a raid into Scotland.

Work continued after Finnart's execution for treason in 1540, under the superintendence of the parson of Dysart, but came to a halt in 1542 on the death of James V, although minor works continued into the 1560s.

However, in 1542, an invasion into Izumo province ended in a disaster, with Yoshitaka losing his adopted son Ōuchi Harumochi along with large number of troops against Amago Haruhisa.

The Welsh legal system was absorbed into the English system by the Laws in Wales Acts, passed between 1535 and 1542 by King Henry VIII of England.

Along with other chiefs, Glengarry was tricked into attending on King James V of Scotland at Portree where they were captured and imprisoned in Edinburgh until the King died in 1542.

* Prince-Bishopric of Naumburg, Lutheran bishop and administrators between 1542 and 1547 and from 1562 on, secularised and merged into the Electorate of Saxony in 1615

However, Imagawa soon came into conflict with the Oda clan, and faced defeat at the 1542 battle of Azukizaka.

On December 7, 1542, by edict of Francis I, France was divided into sixteen généralités.