Editing 1531 (section)

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* [[Andrea Alciato]] publishes ''[[Emblemata]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alciato at Glasgow: Alciato, Andrea: Emblematum liber (1531) |url=https://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/books.php?id=A31a |website=www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk |access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref>
* [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco de Montejo]] claims [[Chichen Itza]] as capital of Spanish-ruled [[Yucatán Peninsula|Yucatán]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Cancun and the Yucatan: Includes the Maya Sites of Tabasco & Chiapas |date=1 September 2011 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-4053-8260-1 |page=275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUhjq3Q61YYC&dq=yucatan+Francisco+de+Montejo+Chichen+Itza+%221531%22&pg=PA275 |access-date=10 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* The [[University of Sarajevo]] is founded by [[Gazi Husrev-beg]] based on [[Sufism|Sufi]] philosophy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dizdar |first1=Srebren |title=A Development and Perspectives of Teacher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina |date=1998 |publisher=Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports |isbn=978-9958-11-061-0 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYWcAAAAMAAJ&q=University+of+Sarajevo+Gazi+Husrev+Bey+%221531%22 |access-date=11 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Kõpu Lighthouse]] is completed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kõpu Lighthouse |url=https://heritage.iala-aism.org/lighthouses/kopu-lighthouse/ |website=IALA Heritage |access-date=11 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebelt |first1=Thomas |title=Lighthouses of Europe |date=15 November 2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4729-5875-4 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZNyDwAAQBAJ&dq=K%C3%B5pu+Lighthouse+%221531%22&pg=PA35 |access-date=11 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* A severe drought in [[Henan]] province, China, coupled with a gigantic swarm of [[locust]]s in the summer, forces many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]] to avoid dying by starvation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brook |first1=Timothy |title=The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China |date=1998 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-22154-3 |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuMcHWWbXqMC&dq=cannibalism+henan+drought+locusts+%221531%22&pg=PA104 |access-date=11 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] abolishes the worst abuses of the [[encomienda]] system, by pressure of [[Bartolomé de las Casas]].
* A [[witch-hunt]] is conducted in the town of [[Schiltach]], Germany.
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* In present-day Czech Republic, the Zástřizl family held [[Bohdalice]] and Pavlovice from 1413 until 1531.<ref name="Maňhalová">{{cite book|last=Maňhalová|first=Dagmar|title=Z dějin Bohdalic - 666. let od první písemné zmínky o obci|date=2003|publisher=OÚ Bohdalice|language=cs}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Noga|first=Karel|date=2001-01-01|title=Z minulosti tvrze a zámku v Bohdalicích|language=Czech|pages=71–72|work=Vyškovský sborník II|url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96633938|access-date=2020-06-25}}</ref>