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1539| 1533–1545 | Dai Viet [political events] | Nguyen Kim restores the south of Dai Viet to the Le dynasty, governing from Hue. The usurping Mac family remains in control of the north from Hanoi. | | 1535–1545 | Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Netherlands [crime and punishment] | After the failure of the revolution in Münster and the risings elsewhere, about 30,000 Anabaptists are executed in the Netherlands alone; the remainder follow the new pacifist Dutch prophet Menno Simons and cease to be a political force. | | March 1537 - March 1540 | England [political events] | The dissolution of the greater monasteries of England and Wales proceeds through inducement, coercion, and the trial and execution of abbots, directed by King Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell. | | 1539 | India [births and deaths] | Nanak, Indian religious leader, first Guru of the Sikhs, dies in Kartarpur, Punjab (70). | | 17 April 1539 | Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany [political events] | Henry, a German Lutheran, becomes Duke of Saxony on the death of his brother George, a Catholic; all of northern Germany except Brunswick has now become Protestant. |
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