Editing 1541 (section)

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* [[Ottoman Sultan]] [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] seals off [[Golden Gate (Jerusalem)|The Golden Gate]] in [[Jerusalem]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Price |first1=Randall |title=Rose Guide to the Temple |date=3 August 2021 |publisher=Rose Publishing |isbn=978-1-59636-564-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmA7EAAAQBAJ&dq=The+Golden+Gate+suleiman+%221541%22&pg=PT235 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en|quote=But the present gate owes its form due to Ottoman Sultan Suleiman who sealed it in 1541.}}</ref> likely because of a prophecy that the [[Messiah]] would return through this gate to Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hinnant |first1=Greg |title=The Day of The Lord Commentary: Interpreting Old Testament End-Times Prophecy |date=10 August 2021 |publisher=Gatekeeper Press |isbn=978-1-6629-1503-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dbw8EAAAQBAJ&dq=The+Golden+Gate+suleiman+%221541%22&pg=PT135 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en|quote=The Eastern (or Golden) Gate was sealed in 1541 by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman after being informed it was prophesied that through this gate the Jewish Messiah would return to Israel.}}</ref>
* [[Iceland]] adopts the [[Lutheran]] faith.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kristjánsdóttir |first1=Steinunn |title=Monastic Iceland |date=30 December 2022 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-83015-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5imgEAAAQBAJ&dq=iceland+lutheran+%221541%22&pg=PT13 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en|quote=In Iceland, the Reformation occurred in Skalholt diocese in 1541, when the Lutheran Church ordinance of King Christian III was passed by the country's general assembly, Alþingi.}}</ref>
* [[Gerardus Mercator]] makes his first [[globe]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cotter |first1=Charles H. |title=The Development of the Mariner's Chart |journal=The International Hydrographic Review |date=1977 |volume=LIV |issue=1 |page=127 |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/23708 |access-date=14 September 2023 |language=en |issn=0020-6946}}</ref>
* The first official translation of the entire [[Bible]] into Swedish is made, and is called the [[Gustav Vasa Bible]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Biblis: tidskrift för bokhistoria, bibliografi, bokhantverk, samlande |date=1999 |publisher=Kungl. Biblioteket |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PxRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22f%C3%B6rst%22%201541 |access-date=15 September 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[John Calvin]] translates his ''[[Institutes of the Christian Religion|Institutio Christianae religionis]]'' into French, as ''L'Institution chrétienne''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Calvin |first1=Jean |title=Institutes of the Christian religion : 1541 French edition |date=2009 |publisher=William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. |location=Grand Rapids |isbn=978-0-8028-0774-8 |page=IX |url=https://archive.org/details/institutesofchri0000calv_g3p3/page/n9/mode/2up?q=1541 |access-date=15 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[Elia Levita]]'s [[chivalric romance]], the ''[[Bovo-Bukh]]'', is first printed, the earliest published secular work in [[Yiddish]].
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