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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Princess [[Madeleine of Valois]], the 16-year-old daughter of [[Francis I of France|François I]], King of France, is married to King [[James V of Scotland]] in a ceremony at the cathedral of [[Notre-Dame de Paris]]. Already in ill health at the time of the marriage, Madaleine lives only six more months before dying at the [[Holyrood Palace]] in [[Edinburgh]] on July 7.<ref>{{cite book |last=Seward |first=Desmond |author-link=Desmond Seward |title=Prince of the Renaissance: The Golden Life of François I |url=https://archive.org/details/princeofrenaissa00sewa |publisher=Macmillan Publishing Co |location= New York |year=1973 |isbn=9780026097000 |page=194}}</ref> 
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence]] is assassinated by [[Lorenzino de' Medici]], a distant cousin, who claims that he wants to reintroduce republican rule but has to flee to Venice. Instead [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Cosimo I]] of the junior branch of the Medici becomes the new duke.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Bigod's Rebellion]], an uprising by Roman Catholics, led by [[Francis Bigod]] against [[Henry VIII of England]] and Protestant Rebellion, begins with an unsuccessful attempt to seize [[Scarborough Castle]] in [[Yorkshire]].<ref name=Hicks>{{cite ODNB |last=Hicks |first=Michael |year=2004 |title=Bigod, Sir Francis (1507–1537) |id=2375}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash;  Most of Bigod's forces are captured by the English Army at a dawn raid of their camp at [[Beverley, Yorkshire]], but Bigod escapes to Mulgrave and then to what is then the County of [[Cumberland]].<ref name=Hicks/>   
* [[January]] &ndash; At the [[battle of Ollantaytambo]], the Inca Emperor [[Manco Inca Yupanqui]] defeats the Spanish led by [[Hernando Pizarro]] and the Spaniards' Indian allies 
* [[February 10]] &ndash;  Francis Bigod, leader of Bigod's rebellion is captured at Cumberland by the English Army and imprisoned at [[Carlisle Castle]]. He is hanged at [[Tyburn]] on June 2.<ref name=Hicks/> 
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Chipatá, Santander|Chipatá]], now in the [[Santander Department]] of the [[Republic of Colombia]], is founded by the Spanish conquistadors [[Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada]] and his brother [[Hernán Pérez de Quesada]] as the first settlement in what will become the Spanish colony of [[New Kingdom of Granada|Nueva Granada]], which will later be divided into the nations of [[Colombia]] and [[Venezuela]]. 
* [[March 12]] &ndash;  [[Recife]] is founded by the [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]], in [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=da Silva |first1=Jorge José Araujo |title=O MANGUEZAL E A SOCIEDADE PERNAMBUCANA-BRASI |journal=Revista Geográfica de América Centra |date=2011 |pages=1–22 |url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/4517/451744820676.pdf |access-date=23 August 2023|language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Da Cartografia dos Antigos Engenhos à Cartografia Holandesa e Portuguesa |url=https://www.ufmg.br/rededemuseus/crch/simposio/BORBOREMA_ANA_CLAUDIA_B_ET_AL.pdf |website=Brazilian Syposium on Historical Cartography |access-date=23 August 2023|language=pt}}</ref>