Editing 1537 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 15]] &ndash; Following the baptism of her son, the future [[Edward VI of England]], [[Jane Seymour]] begins suffering from [[puerperal fever]]. The Queen consort dies nine days later.<ref name="LevinBertolet2016">{{cite book|author1=Carole Levin|author2=Anna Riehl Bertolet|author3=Jo Eldridge Carney|title=A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kDglDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA280|date=3 November 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-315-44071-2|pages=280}}</ref>
[[File:Silver coin of Kashmir Sultanate.jpg|thumb|Silver coin (sasnu) of the Kashmiri [[sultan]] Shams al-Din Shah II, 1537-38]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; In what is now the Central American nation of [[Honduras]], the Spanish conquistadore [[Alonso de Cáceres]] arrives at the [[Peñol de Cerquín]], the mountaintop fortress of [[Lempira (Lenca ruler)|King Lempira]] of the [[Lenca]]s, the indigenous leader of the resistance against European rule. Cáceres sends envoys to request Lempira to surrender. In response, Lempira has the Spanish messengers executed.<ref>Robert S. Chamberlain, ''The Conquest and Colonization of Honduras: 1502–1550''(Octagon Books, 1953) p.53 {{OCLC|640057454}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Alfonso d'Avalos]], the Marquis of Vasto in Italy, enters into a three-month truce with the French [[Anne de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency|Duke of Montmorency]] to negotiate a peace for which areas would be under French control.<ref>Christine Shaw, (2019).''The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe'' (Routledge, 2019) p.222</ref>
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Petar Keglević]] takes office as the new Ottoman Governor of Croatia and of Slavonia.<ref>[https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/keglevic-petar-hrvatsko-slavonsko-dalmatinski-ban Hrvatska enciklopedija- Keglević, Petar]</ref> 
* [[December 28]] &ndash; The [[Ordonnance de Montpellier]], establishing the first system in Europe for [[legal deposit|all writers to submit copies of their printed work]] to the government for review and maintenance in a library, is signed into law by [[Francis I of France|King François I]] of France. The law provides that a book cannot be legally sold until a copy has been deposited in the royal library.<ref>{{cite book| last=Larivière| first=Jules| year= 2000| title=Guidelines for Legal Deposit Legislation| publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)| location=Paris| url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001214/121413Eo.pdf |chapter=History of Legal Deposit}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://billets.domec.net/tag/François%20Ier |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917190044/http://billets.domec.net/tag/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Ier |archivedate=2015-09-17|title=Texte intégral de l'ordonnance de Montpellier |language=fr}}</ref>