Editing 1537 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; The Archbishop of [[Norway]], [[Olav Engelbrektsson]], flees from  [[Trondheim]] to [[Lier, Belgium]].<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Ekroll |first=Øystein |date=2015 |title=The Octagonal Shrine Chapel of St Olav at Nidaros Cathedral |url=https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/2372702 |type=PhD |page=35 |publisher=Nσorwegian University of Science and Technology |access-date=23 August 2023|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Holte |first1=Roar |title=Erkebiskop Olav Engelbrektsson taler sin sak. En analyse av erkebiskopens politiske korrespondanse og utvalgte notater 1523-1533 |date=2014 |publisher=University of Oslo |page=2 |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/40198 |access-date=23 August 2023|language=no}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Diego de Almagro]] successfully charges [[Manco Inca]]'s [[siege of Cuzco]], thereby saving his antagonists, the [[Pizarro brothers]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hemming |first=John |title = The Conquest of the Incas |url = https://archive.org/details/conquestofincas0000hemm_j0r5| year = 1993 |publisher = London: Macmillan|isbn=0-333-10683-0 }}</ref>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Spanish conquest of the Muisca]]: [[Bacatá]], the main settlement of the [[Muisca Confederation]], is conquered by [[Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada]], effectively ending the Confederation in the [[Colombia]]n Eastern Andes.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kathleen Romoli|title=Colombia: Gateway to South America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOtrAAAAMAAJ|year=1944|publisher=Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated|page=105}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; 
**The [[Siege of Steinvikholm (1537)|siege by Norwegian and Danish Protestants]] of [[Steinvikholm Castle]] in [[Norway]], the former residence of the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norway, ended after a month when the Catholic defenders surrendered to the Danish commander, Tord Roed.{<ref>{{cite book| last=Beek|first=Dag Johan|title=I erkebiskopens tid|publisher=|location=Kristiansand|year=2013|isbn=978-82-999312-0-5|language=Norwegian}}</ref>
**The [[Ottoman Empire]] invaded southern Italy, attacking the cities of [[Apulia]], [[Otranto]] and [[Brindisi]], in a campaign that would last until November 22.<ref>{{cite book |last=Turnbull | first=Stephen R. |title=The Ottoman Empire, 1326–1699 | publisher=Osprey Publishing Ltd |year=2003 |page=52 |isbn=978-0-415-96913-0}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul III]] publishes the encyclical ''[[Sublimis Deus]]'', which declares the natives of the [[New World]] to be rational beings with souls, who must not be enslaved or robbed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maxwell |first1=John Francis |title=Slavery and the Catholic Church |date=1975 |publisher=Barry Rose Publishers |location=Chichester |isbn=978-0-85992-015-5 |pages=69–70 |url=https://archive.org/details/slaverycatholicc0000maxw/page/68/mode/2up?q=1537 |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lynch |first1=John |title=New worlds : a religious history of Latin America |date=2012 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0-300-16680-4 |page=32 |url=https://archive.org/details/newworldsreligio0000lync/page/32/mode/2up?q=1537 |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Hamar|Siege of Hamar]] ends with the arrest of Bishop [[Mogens Lauritssøn]], and the Catholic rebellion is definitively ended in Norway.