19th April » Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt (1539) known as Treaty of Frankfurt.
27th April » Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada e.g New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
30th May » In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
3rd June » Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
10th June » Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
6th October » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
Famous Birthdays in 1539
25th March » Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612)
7th April » Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator (d. 1584)
22nd May » Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (d. 1621)
1st November » Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
5th December » Fausto Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
Famous Deaths in History for 1539
5th March » Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, List of governors of Portuguese India called Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1487)