Editing 1531 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 15]] &ndash; The third session of the Reformation Parliament of King Henry VIII of England is opened. 
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[1531 Lisbon earthquake]]: More than 30,000 people are killed in [[Portugal]] in an earthquake and subsequent [[tsunami]].<ref>{{cite book|author=[[T. D. Kendrick|Thomas Downing Kendrick]]|title=The Lisbon Earthquake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOMAAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Lippincott|page=144}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] princes in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] form an alliance known as the [[Schmalkaldic League]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=McEntegart |first1=Rory |title=Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation |date=2002 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd |isbn=978-0-86193-255-9 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfinGbNlWq4C&q=%2227+february%22&pg=PR7 |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Herzog |first1=Johann Jakob |title=Real-encyklopädie für protestantische theologie und kirche: In verbindung mit vielen protestantischen theologen und gelehrten |date=1857 |publisher=R. Besser |page=390 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QwtAAAAYAAJ&dq=Lutherische+F%C3%BCrsten,+Heiliges+R%C3%B6misches+Reich,+Schmalkaldischer+Bund+%E2%80%9E27.+Februar+1531%E2%80%9C&pg=PA390 |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February]] or March &ndash; [[Battle of Antukyah]]: [[Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi]] of the [[Adal Sultanate]] defeats the [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopian]] army.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Asiatic Quarterly Review |date=1905 |publisher=Oriental Institute |page=445 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxgoAAAAYAAJ&dq=Battle+of+Antukyah&pg=PA335 |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] &ndash; In India, the fortress of [[Mandu, Madhya Pradesh|Mandu]], capital of the [[Malwa Sultanate]], falls as Malwa's [[Muzaffarids (Gujarat)#Sultans of Gujarat Sultanate|Sultan Mahmúd II]] and his sons surrender to [[Bahadur Shah of Gujarat]].<ref>{{citation-attribution|1={{cite book |editor=James Macnabb Campbell |editor-link=James Macnabb Campbell |title=History of Gujarát |chapter-url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm |series=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency |volume=I(II) |year=1896 |publisher=The Government Central Press |pages=254–257 |chapter=II. ÁHMEDÁBÁD KINGS. (A. D. 1403–1573.) |access-date=2017-06-29 |archive-date=2018-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919123131/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm |url-status=live }}}}</ref><ref>Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). ''The Mughul Empire'', Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, {{Listed Invalid ISBN|81-7276-407-1}}, pp.391-398</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; King Henry VIII gives royal assent to numerous acts at the close of the session of the English Parliament, including the [[Poisoning Act 1530]] (providing for [[Death by boiling|boiling to death]] people convicted of poisioning other persons); the [[Vagabonds Act 1530]] (permitting licensed begging by certified disabled and elderly people); the [[Egyptians Act 1530]] to allow the expulsion of [[Romani people|gypsies]]; and the [[Bridges Act 1530]] for maintenance of bridges.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Raithby|editor-first=John|editor-link=John Raithby|title=The statutes at large, of England and of Great Britain: from Magna Carta to the union of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=do1KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89|volume=III. From Hen.VIII.A.D.1509-10.—To 7 Edw.VI.1553|year=1811|publisher=George Eyre and Andrew Strahan|page=89}}</ref>