1534
year
1534 (MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1534th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 534th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 16th century, and the 5th year of the 1530s decade. As of the start of 1534, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1500s 1510s 1520s – 1530s – 1540s 1550s 1560s |
| Years: | 1531 1532 1533 – 1534 – 1535 1536 1537 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1534 MDXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2287 |
| Armenian calendar | 983 ԹՎ ՋՁԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6284 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1455–1456 |
| Bengali calendar | 941 |
| Berber calendar | 2484 |
| English Regnal year | 25 Hen. 8 – 26 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2078 |
| Burmese calendar | 896 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7042–7043 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4230 or 4170 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4231 or 4171 |
| Coptic calendar | 1250–1251 |
| Discordian calendar | 2700 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1526–1527 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5294–5295 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1590–1591 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1455–1456 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4634–4635 |
| Holocene calendar | 11534 |
| Igbo calendar | 534–535 |
| Iranian calendar | 912–913 |
| Islamic calendar | 940–941 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 3 (天文３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1452–1453 |
| Julian calendar | 1534 MDXXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3867 |
| Minguo calendar | 378 before ROC 民前378年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 66 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2076–2077 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1660 or 1279 or 507 — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1661 or 1280 or 508 |
Events
change- Jaques Cartier explored Quebec and Montreal.
Births
change- Joan Waste (d. 1 August 1556), English woman burned to death because she would not stop being a Protestant
- 10 February – Song Ik-phil (d. 8 August 1599), Korean politician
- 23 June – Oda Nobunaga (d. 21 June 1582), Japanese daimyo
- 1 July – Frederick II of Denmark (d. 4 April 1588), King of Denmark-Norway
- 24 September – Guru Ram Das (d. 1 September 1581), fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism
Deaths
change- 26 May – Pope Clement VII (born 26 May 1478), 220th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church