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=== April–June === * [[April 11]] – The [[Ottoman embassy to France (1534)|visiting Ottoman envoys to France]] depart from [[Marseille]], six months after having arrived from [[Istanbul]] in October. [[Jean de La Forêt]], the new French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, accompanies the Ottoman fleet with his party on a French galley, and the group sails to [[Tunis]].<ref>Edith Garnier, ''L'Alliance Impie'' (Editions du Felin, 2008) p.91 {{ISBN|978-2-86645-678-8}}</ref> * [[April 20]] – While King [[Gustav Vasa]] of Sweden is out of the country, an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, the ''[[sun dog|Vädersol]]'', appears in the sky over the Swedish capital of [[Stockholm]], and last for two hours. Because of uncertainty about whether the ''vädersol'' is a sign of God showing favor or disapproval of the [[Reformation in Sweden|Protestant reformation]] and of King Gustav himself, the Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop [[Olaus Petri]] commissions [[Urban målare|Urban Larsson]] to document the event in a painting, the ''[[Vädersolstavlan]]''. * [[May 4]] – The first of the English [[Carthusian Martyrs of London]], [[John Houghton (martyr)|John Houghton]] of London, [[Robert Lawrence (martyr)|Robert Lawrence]] of [[Beauvale]], and [[Augustine Webster]] of [[Axholme]] are executed at [[Tyburn]] after refusing to sign the English [[Oath of Supremacy]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Cranmer|first= Thomas|title= The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury|year= 1833|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> The three will be canonized 435 years later on October 25, 1970, as saints of the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day of May 4.<ref>{{cite book |author=Malcolm Pullan |title=The Lives and Times of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales 1535–1680 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGgoNQAACAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Athena Press |isbn=978-1-84748-258-7 |pages=xvii–xxii}}</ref> * [[May 10]] – In [[Amsterdam]], a small troop of [[Anabaptists]], led by the minister Jacob van Geel, attacks the city hall, in an attempted coup to seize the city. In the counter-attack by the city's militia, the [[burgemeester]], Pieter Colijns, is killed by the rebels.<ref>{{cite book|author1-link=James Tracy (historian)|last=Tracy|first=James D.|title=Holland under Habsburg Rule, 1506–1566: The Formation of a Body Politic|year=1990|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=0-520-06882-3|url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1779n76h;brand=ucpress}}</ref> In another incident this year in Amsterdam, seven men and five women walk nude in the streets; and Anabaptists rebel in other cities of the Netherlands. * [[May 19]] – French explorer [[Jacques Cartier]] sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and [[Chief Donnacona]]'s two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage). * [[May 20]] – [[William Tyndale]] is arrested in [[Antwerp]] for heresy, in relation to his Bible translation,<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> and imprisoned in [[Vilvoorde]]. * [[June 1]] – The [[Conquest of Tunis (1535)|Conquest of Tunis]] by [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], begins with the destruction of [[Hayreddin Barbarossa|Barbarossa]]'s fleet. Following the eventual capture of the city from the [[Ottoman Empire]], around 30,000 inhabitants are massacred. * [[June 8]] – [[Battle of Bornholm (1535)|Battle of Bornholm]]: Combined [[Sweden|Swedish]] and [[Denmark|Danish]] fleets defeat the [[Hanseatic League|Hanseatic]] navy. * [[June 22]] – Cardinal [[John Fisher]], [[Bishop of Rochester]], is executed for his refusal to swear an oath of loyalty to King [[Henry VIII of England]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/210|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/210 210–215]}}</ref> * [[June 24]] – [[Münster Rebellion]]: The [[Anabaptist]] state of [[Münster]] is conquered and disbanded.
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