Events

• Sägesignatur (“signature in tooth of saw”): the Dendrochronologie reveals in the south of the Germany the regular alternation of dry years and rainy years of 1530 with 1541, alternation confirmed by the dates of grape harvest recorded in France and Suisse.

• the Schism Anglican

• the May 23rd 1533, the king of England Henri VIII, second sovereign of the dynasty Tudor, divorce of his first wife Catherine d' Aragon and marries Anne Boleyn, lady-in-waiting of the queen, whom it makes crown a few days later. The event causes the excommunication of the king by the pope Clément VII, first episode of the schism which proved to be final.
• This schism causes the resignation of Thomas More on May 16th 1532. Refusing to recognize the spiritual authority of the king, he is imprisoned in the Tour of London then carried out on July 6th 1535.

• First strikes of the French peasants against the Dîme S (1530 - 1560).

• the Protestantisme progresses in the the Cevennes as from 1530-1540.
• the Knights of Rhodos receive the island of Malta of the emperor Charles Quint

• Resistance of the natives of the Mexico to the Spanish invader, carried out by Lempira

Art & Culture

Economy & company

• the exploitation of the mines of America throws on the European market of great quantities of Or starting from 1530 via Seville.
• the king of Spain has an army of 150  000 men.
• Trade of houses of Bristol-board, Plymouth or Southampton on the coasts of the Morocco, in Guinea and with the Brazil (1530-1540).
• the merchants of Amsterdam take the practice to be assembled in a “Bourse”.

Significant characters

• Jacques Cartier

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Nicolas Copernic writes revolutions of the celestial spheres .
• Jacques Cartier begins the colonization of the Quebec

Significant works

• Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua , first Romance S of the pantagruelic epic of François Rabelais.

• Cymbalum Mundi (1537), allotted to Bonaventure of Périers.

Simple: 1530s