Editing 1542 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; Cabrillo becomes the first European to set foot on California's [[Santa Catalina Island, California|Santa Catalina Island]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marz |first1=John George |title=Santa Catalina Island: A Case Study in Recreational Geography |date=1972 |publisher=University of California, Davis |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuAYA73ufX0C&q=%22october%207%201542%22 |access-date=18 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; King [[James V of Scotland]] writes a letter to [[Pope Paul III]] and notes that he defied Henry VIII's attempts to convert him to the [[Protestantism|Protestant faith]].<ref>[[Denys Hay]], ''Letters of James V'' (Edinburgh, 1954), p. 444.</ref> 
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Solway Moss]]: An [[Kingdom of England|English]] army invades [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]], and defeats a Scottish army.<ref>{{cite book|author=Scottish History Society|title=Publications of the Scottish History Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgYdAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=T. and A. Constable|page=188}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Palace plot of Renyin year]]: A group of [[Ming dynasty]] [[lady-in-waiting|palace women]] fail to murder the [[Jiajing Emperor]], and are executed by [[Lingchi|slow-slicing]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barmé |first1=Geremie |title=The Forbidden City |date=2008 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02779-4 |pages=40–42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gniwsTYXFeoC&q=%2227+november%22&pg=PR7 |access-date=18 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], aged six days, becomes [[queen regnant]] on the death of her father, [[James V of Scotland]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wormald |first1=Jenny |title=Mary, Queen of Scots |date=17 August 2017 |publisher=Casemate Publishers |isbn=978-0-85790-350-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNAcEAAAQBAJ&q=%2214+december%22 |access-date=18 September 2023 |language=en|quote=On 14 December 1542, James V died in his splendid royal bedchamber at Falkland, the beauty he himself had created no longer enough to pierce the malaise of his profound melancholy. His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne.}}</ref>