Editing 1534 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 4]] &ndash; As the [[Michaelmas]] fair opens in [[Wittenberg]], [[Martin Luther]]'s translation of the complete Christian [[Luther Bible|Bible]] into [[German language|German]] is offered for sale for the first time. The work, printed on 1,824 pages in two volumes by [[Hans Lufft]] adds the [[Old Testament]] including the [[deuterocanonical books]] to Luther's [[1522]] translation of the [[New Testament]], and includes [[woodcut]] illustrations.<ref>"Martin Luther's 1522 September Testament as the Epoch-Making Foundation for a Quarter-Century of Wittenberg Bible Publication", by W. Gordon Campbell, in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=osL0EAAAQBAJ&dq=German+Bible+%22October+1534%22&pg=PA45 Martin Luther's Bible]'', ed. by W. Gordon Campbell (James Clarke Company, Ltd., 2024) p.45</ref>
* [[October 13]] &ndash; Cardinal Alessandro Farnese is elected as the 220th pope of the Roman Catholic Church after [[1534 papal conclave|a two-day conclave]] to find a successor for [[Pope Clement VII]], who had died on September 25. Farnese, the Bishop of Ostia, takes the name [[Pope Paul III]] and is crowned on November 3.<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard Hibbard|title=Michelangelo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsmfAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Harper & Row|page=240|isbn=9780713907810 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Huguenots]] post placards all over [[France]] attacking the Catholic [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]], provoking a violent sectarian reaction ([[Affair of the Placards]]).
* [[November 3]]&ndash; The [[English Reformation Parliament]] passes the [[Acts of Supremacy|Act of Supremacy]], establishing [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] as supreme head of the [[Church of England]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army under [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] [[Capture of Baghdad (1534)|captures]] the city of [[Baghdad]] from the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavids]] without a struggle, beginning almost 400 years of Ottoman rule of what is now Iraq.<ref>André Clot, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zz0hBQAAQBAJ&dq=Ottoman+Baghdad+%22December+1534%22&pg=PT82 ''Suleiman the Magnificent'' (Saqi Books, 2012)]</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; Over 200 Spanish settlers, led by [[conquistador]] [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]], found what becomes [[Quito]], [[Ecuador]].