Editing 1538 (section)

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October 6]] &ndash; The eruption the Italian volcano ends after seven days, having created [[Monte Nuovo]].<ref name=MDLLGR/>
* [[October 28]] &ndash; The first university of the [[New World]], the [[Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino]], is founded on the island of [[Hispaniola]] in [[Santo Domingo]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jiminez |first1=F. A. |title=University rivalry in Hispaniola. |journal=Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine |date=1979 |volume=55 |issue=7 |pages=700–707 |pmid=393344 |pmc=1808221 |issn=0028-7091}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Universidades españolas y americanas: época colonial |date=1987 |publisher=CSIC Press |isbn=978-84-7579-444-0 |page=452 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jWYZ_ExqymkC&dq=Universidad+Santo+Tom%C3%A1s+de+Aquino+%22primera+universidad%22+28+de+octubre+de+1538&pg=RA19-PA10 |access-date=26 August 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[November 5]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Diu (1538)|siege of the Indian city of Diu]] ends as the [[Gujarat Sultanate|Gujarat]] and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces withdraw from the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] held city.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Benians |first1=Ernest Alfred |last2=Newton |first2=Arthur Percival |last3=Rose |first3=John Holland |title=The Cambridge History of the British Empire |date=1940 |publisher=CUP Archive |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-08AAAAIAAJ&dq=Siege+of+Diu+Gujarat+%225+november+1538%22&pg=PA15 |access-date=26 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 30]]
** [[Sucre]], Bolivia, is founded under the name ''Ciudad de la Plata de la Nueva Toledo''.
** Dissolution of the Monasteries in England: [[Byland Abbey]] is dissolved.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Newsome |first1=Clive |title=The Abbey Trail |date=July 2003 |publisher=SIGMA PRESS |isbn=978-1-85058-803-0 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Syg8cN9n6XgC&dq=Byland+Abbey+%2230+november+1538%22&pg=PA79 |access-date=26 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History of Byland Abbey |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/byland-abbey/history/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul III]] confirms the [[excommunication]] of [[Henry VIII of England]] from the Roman Catholic church.<ref>{{cite book|last=Scarisbrick|first=J. J.|author-link=Jack Scarisbrick|year=1997|title=Henry VIII|publisher=Yale University Press|edition=2nd|location=New Haven|isbn=0-300-07158-2|page=361}}</ref>