Editing 1541 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Francis Xavier]] leaves [[Lisbon]], on a mission to the [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] [[East Indies]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bedouelle |first1=Guy |title=The History of the Church |date=10 April 2003 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-1481-6 |page=173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GF1AhFIUCgC&dq=francis+xavier+lisbon+east+indies+%227+april+1541%22&pg=PA173 |access-date=13 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Sahart]]: [[Gelawdewos]] is defeated by the forces of [[Imam]] [[Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Georg Schurhammer|title=Francis Xavier; His Life, His Times: India, 1541-1544|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyrGyDSTUa0C|year=1982|publisher=Jesuit Historical Institute|isbn=978-88-7041-594-0|page=512}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] explorer [[Hernando de Soto]] reaches the [[Mississippi River]], naming it the [[Rio de Espiritu Santo]] ("River of the Holy Spirit").<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Neal |first1=Claire |title=The Mississippi River |date=30 September 2012 |publisher=Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. |isbn=978-1-61228-369-2 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9iXBgAAQBAJ&q=1541&pg=PA5 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |date=1951 |publisher=Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZwKAQAAMAAJ&q=Hernando+de+Soto++R%C3%ADo+del+Esp%C3%ADritu+Santo+%22may+8+1541%22 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Jacques Cartier]] departs from [[Saint-Malo]], France on his third voyage.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Emery |first1=Kenneth O. |last2=Uchupi |first2=Elazar |title=The Geology of the Atlantic Ocean |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4612-5278-8 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXHjBwAAQBAJ&dq=%2223+may+1541%22+Jacques+Cartier+Saint-Malo+third&pg=PA15 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; The [[List of parliaments of Ireland|Parliament of Ireland]] is opened by King Henry VIII for a session that will last for two years.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Şehzade Mustafa]], the son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor of the [[Amasya]] region of Turkey.
* [[June 26]] &ndash; At [[Lima]], [[Francisco Pizarro]], the Spanish conqueror of the Inca Empire of Peru and [[List of viceroys of Peru|Governor of Nueva Castilla]] since 1529, is assassinated by 20 heavily-armed supporters of [[Diego de Almagro II]] in retaliation for the 1538 execution of [[Diego de Almagro]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Mark A. |last1=Burkholder|first2=Lyman L.|last2= Johnson|title=Colonial Latin America|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=MSLn_-1MvhAC|page=59}}|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515685-0 |page=59}}</ref>