1542

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1539 1540 1541 – 1542 – 1543 1544 1545

Events

• December 14 – Accession of Mary, Queen of Scots

Births

• June 6 – Richard Grenville, Elizabethan sailor (died 1591)
• June 24 – St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
• October 15 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, ruler of the Mughal Empire (died 1605)
• December 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (died 1587)
• Robert Bellarmine, Catholic theologian and saint (died 1621)
• Toda Kazuaki, samurai in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu (died 1604)
• Anthony Shirley, English traveller (died 1635)
• John Speed, historian (died 1629)
• Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese daimyo (died 1611)
• Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander
• Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1605)

Deaths

• February 13 – Katherine Howard, Queen of England
• December 14 – James V, King of Scotland