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This page relates to the year 1542 Calendrier Julien.

Events

America

Africa

  • the troops songhaï invade the Bendougou (Mali).

Ethiopia

  • February 2nd: Victoire of the Portuguese on the musumans with Baçente, in the Striped one.
  • 4 - April 16th: Battle of Jarte. The Portuguese arrive beginning April in the south of Macallé where they are cut off in front of the large one from the troops from Barn. In two battles in the north of Amba-Alagui, they relax the Moslems, surprised by the firearms, and wound Imâm Ahmed Gragne. Mid-April, they reach the plain of Ofala, in the south of the Lac Achangui, whereas the rain season arrives.
  • August 28th: Battle of Wofla. During this time, Gragne remakes its troops and there assistant 900 musketeers and ten received guns of Arabia of the pasha of the Turks of Zébid. It takes again the offensive before the season dries and puts the Portuguese in rout: two hundred survivors fold up themselves towards Sémien with the queen and the catholic Patriarch Bermudez. Gift Christophe of Gamma, remained behind, is taken, tortured and turned in derision before being decapitated (August 29th).
  • In October, the négus Claude succeeded in joining to its troops what remains of the Portuguese, while Gragne, sure of its success, congédié its allies Turkish and regained its districts close to the Lac Tanned.
  • the surviving Portuguese of the countryside of Dom Christovão da Gama are equipped with grounds and richnesses. They create important families and their descendants adopt the costume, manners and the Ethiopian language, but keep the Catholic religion.

Asia

  • India: Sher Shâh Sûrî subjects the Mâlwa, then besieges the fortress Râjput of Grape whose defenders give each other death or are made kill until the last. (If a Râjput place is on the way to be taken, the women and the children, not to be dishonoured, throw themselves in a blazing inferno (rite of the Jauhâr) while the men fight until the last). After bloody combat, the Rajputana is subjected and Sher Shah turns to central India or it takes Kalinjar.
  • China: The Mongolian khan Altan Khan overcomes the immense army of the Ming and makes approximately 200  000 prisoners.
  • a first vessel Portuguese approaches with the Japan, ordered by Fernão Mendes Pinto.

Europe

  • January 20th, Holy Empire: Appearance of superintendents, called to play a part of coordination between the various pastors Lutherans. Nicolas Armsdorf is the established first.

  • March 16th: Macaire becomes métropolite of Moscow and principal adviser of Ivan IV.
  • June: Revolt country carried out by the Nile Dacke in the Småland and the Blekinge (Sweden), against the Réforme, the heaviness of the taxes and the prohibition which is made to the farmers make transport their productions by water way towards the ports of the Baltique. They obtain the support of Albrecht de Mecklembourg which preserves its claims on the throne of Sweden. Gustav Vasa, which manages with difficulty to repress the revolt by the weapons, tests persuasion and signs a Cessez-le-feu the November 8th. The revolt and repressed in March 1543. The Nile Dacke is killed in August 1543.
  • May 22nd: Paul III convenes the Concile of Thirty.
  • July 4th: A monk sent of Nice is shown with Coni to have wanted to make poison the duke of Savoy Charles III (1486 - 1553) by the French.
  • July 21st: Bubble ab.initio Licet . The pope Paul III restores the Roman Inquisition and names six cardinals general inquisiteurs (congregation of the Holy Office) to judge the heretics. Its capacity is exerted only in Italy.
  • July: Fourth war between François Ier and Charles Quint (fine in 1544). Agreement against Charles Quint of the prince de Clèves, Protestant princes d' Empire, François Ier and Soliman the Magnificent the after the failure of Algiers. The war is held in Artois, Gueldre, Luxembourg, Roussillon and Piedmont. François Ier lance a double offensive on the septentrional and southernmost faces.
    • the army of north (duke of Orleans) includes/understands 20  000 lansquenet, 6  000 French infantrymen, 500 gendarmes of the companies of ordinance. That of the Roussillon, ordered by the Dolphin, Montpezat and Annebault, joins together 40  000 French infantrymen, 2  000 gendarmes and 2  000 light horsemen. The army of Piedmont (Of Bellay), has more 10  000 men.
  • August, France: Lawsuit of the chancellor Poyet, who is relieved.
  • August 10th: The duke of Orleans lays off his troops. France loses the Luxembourg in September.
  • August 26th - October 4th: failure of the French to the seat of Perpignan.
  • August 28th, Hungary: Süleyman Ier overcomes the Austrian armies of Roggendorff and removes the Hungarian military chiefs come to visit it in its camp It makes install a Turkish governor with Buda and occupy Cisdanubie permanently. Hungary is divided between the sultan, Ferdinand and Jean Sigismond.
    • royal Hungary, which forms an arc of circle since the Croatian Adriatic and areas to the countries ruthenes in the North-East, is controlled by the Council of lieutenancy chaired by the primacy. The seat of the government is with Presbourg (Bratislava), while the primacy of Hungary sits at Tyrnau (Nagyszombat). In fact the country is controlled since Vienna. The Transylvania is controlled by Jean Sigismond and its tutor the cardinal Martinuzzi (Gyögy Fráter Utiesenic, 1482 - 1551), a croato-Dalmatian soldier of origin. Beside the prince at Alba Iulia a diet sits bringing together the delegates of the three nations which elect the prince and designate the members of the council which assists it in its government.
  • December 7th, France: Edict of Cognac: establishment of 16 general, future receipts general information S of 1542 with 1552, equipped with a general receiver and an office of the general treasurers of France (distribution, collection and scheduling of the tax funds).
  • December, France: Revolts of the Gabelle in South-west in December (Aunis, Saintonge, Guyenne).

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
    • Ferdinand of Austria joins together the General states. It maintains a standing army in Hungary and vainly tries to take Pest. It agrees to pay a tribute with the Turks.
    • Gustav Vasa systematically secularizes the goods of the Church in Götaland (1542 - 1543).
    • Russia: Ivan Chouiski again seizes the capacity and constrained Ivan Bielski with the exile.
    • royal Edict against the Reform in France.

British Isles

Art & culture

  • Memories , of Las Put.
  • Codex Mendoza (1541-1542).
  • the Dialog of the languages , Sperone Splioni. It exalte the value Italian like language of culture.
  • Mikael Agricola publishes an alphabetical , first book printed in Finnois.

    • Legend: Bodin tells without reddening that in 1542 one saw one morning a hundred and fifty wolves-garous on a public place of Constantinople. The author of the Reality of the Magic and the Appearances adds that this fact is noted in the newspapers of time .

Economy & company

  • August: Invasion of grasshoppers with Vérone.
  • France: Tax on the “easy inhabitants” who reports approximately a quarter of the re-entry of the sizes. Tax on the “closed cities”.
  • the Netherlands provide more than one billion maravédis, voted by the General states, with Charles Quint.
  • Sixty boats leave Rouen for Newfoundland in 1542 for fishing with the Morue.
  • 87% of the French forging mills has less than one half-century of existence.

Births in 1542

Death in 1542

  • Dates of death dubious :

    • Sebastian Franck, German philosopher (° 1499)

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