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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Sir]] [[Thomas More]], author of ''[[Utopia (More book)|Utopia]]'' and one time [[Lord Chancellor]] of England, is executed for treason, after refusing to recognize King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] as head of the [[Church of England|English Church]], and separate from the [[Roman Catholic Church]].<ref name="People's Chronology">{{cite book|chapter=1535|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everto Creasando, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Archdeacon]] [[Charles Reynolds (cleric)]], envoy to James V, Charles V, and Pope Paul III, is buried in Rome. He died of malaria while lobbying for the excommunication of King [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] for heresy.
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul III]] issues a [[papal bull]], ''Sublimis Deus'', to appint a commission of five cardinals and three bishops to carry out a reform of the city of Rome and the Roman Curia, with unlimited powers to uproot and punish all spiritual and secular transgressions, abuses, and errors.<ref>Ludwig Pastor, ''History of the Popes'' (tr. R.F. Kerr) [https://archive.org/details/historyofpopesf11past Volume XI] (London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner 1912), pp. 148-150. Stephan Ehses, "Kirchliche Reformarbeiten unter Papst Paul III. vor dem Trienter Konzil," in: {{cite book|title=Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tFErAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA153|volume=XV|year=1900|publisher=Herder|language=German}}, pp. 153—174; 397—411, at p. 157.</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], becomes the first person to pass through the new [[Porta Nuova (Palermo)|Porta Nuova]] in [[Palermo]], celebrating the European conquest of the North African territory of [[Tunis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1sUAAAAQAAJ |title=Gaspare Palermo, ''Guida istruttiva per potersi conoscere tutte le magnificenze della Città di Palermo'', Volume terzo, Palermo, Reale Stamperia, 1816, p. 3-5 |last1=Palermo |first1=Gaspare |date=1816 }}</ref>