1532
| Years: 1529 1530 1531 - 1532 - 1533 1534 1535 | |
| Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s - 1530s - 1540s 1550s 1560s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- May 16 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- June 25 - Suleiman I leads another invasion of Hungary, which fails miserably.
- November 16 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.
- Atahualpa wins Inca civil war over Huscar
- The Prince is published five years after author Niccolò Machiavelli died
- Pantagruel is published by François Rabelais
- Henry VIII grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.
Births
- June 24 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, long-standing favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1588)
- December 26 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (died 1576)
- Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit missionary (died 1613)
- William Cardinal Allen, English cardinal (died 1594)
- Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian portrait painter (died 1625)
- Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (died 1575)
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of the Pléiade (died 1589)
- Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (died 1585)
- Luis Frois, Portuguese missionary (died 1597)
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (died 1602)
- John Hawkins, English navigator (died 1595)
- William IV of Hesse, German protestant leader
- Etienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (died 1573)
- Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland (died 1585)
- Thomas Norton, English lawyer (died 1584)
- Thomas Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde (died 1614)
- Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (died 1588)
- Richard Topcliffe, notorious English torturer and sadist (died 1604)
- Tulsidas, medieval Hindi poet and philosopher (died 1623)
Deaths
- January 31 - Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley (born 1460)
- August 16 - John, Elector of Saxony
- December 11 - Pietro Accolti, cardinal of Ancona (born 1455)
- Andrea Briosco, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1470)
- Thomas Harding, English Bible translator
- Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (born 1482)
- Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter
- Krzysztof Szydlowiecki, Polish noble (born 1467)
- William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1450)