Events of 1533

January–June

• January 25 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.

• March 30 – Although secretly married to the niece of Lutheran scholar Andreas Osiander, Margaret, in violation of his vow of celibacy, Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

• May 23 – King Henry VIII of England's marriage with Catherine of Aragon is officially declared annulled by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. However, since Pope Clement VII had already rejected Henry's petition for annulment in 1530, Catherine continues to believe herself Henry's wife until her death.

Nov. 15: Pizarro.

• June 1 – Thomas Cranmer crowns Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII of England, in Westminster Abbey as queen. Pope Clement VII responds to the marriage by excommunicating both Henry and Cranmer from the Roman Catholic Church.

July–December

• July 11 – Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII.

• September 7 – Elizabeth I of England is born at Greenwich Palace.

• November 15 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.

Undated

• Russia, Ivan IV succeeds his father Vasili III as Grand Prince of Muscovy at 3 years old.

• Peru: Inca Atahualpa pays Francisco Pizarro a ransom of approx. $100 million in gold; Pizarro executes him anyway.

• A peace treaty divides Hungary between Suleiman I and King Ferdinand.

• Pechenga Monastery is founded in the Far North of Russia.

• The Act in Restraint of Appeals declares the king to be the supreme sovereign in England and forbids judicial appeals to the papacy.

• 1533–1534 – Sultan Suleyman I makes Roxelana his legal wife.

Births

• February 9 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)

• February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (d. 1592)

• April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1604)

• April 24 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)

• August 2 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)

• August 7 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)

• September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)

• December 13 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)

• December 27 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586)

• date unknown

• *Eknath, Marathi saint (d. 1599)

• probable

• *Amina, Queen of Zazzua (d. 1610)

• *David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1566)

Deaths

• April 10 – King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)

• April 28 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)

• June 25 – Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)

• July 4 – John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr (b. 1503)

• July 6 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)

• August 8 – Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (b. 1494)

• August 29 – Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru (executed) (b. c .1502)

• September 20 – Veit Stoss, German sculptor (b. c. 1447)

• December 3 – Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy (b. 1479)

• date unknown

• *Fortún Ximénez, Spanish sailor and mutineer

• probable

• *Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (b. 1477)