Timeline June 1535

Events in June 1535 3

• 1469 – 1535 John Fisher (1469-1535) Died 22 June 1535, aged 65 John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal, was executed on Tower Hill for refusing to accept Henry VIII's claim to supremacy over the Church of England. He had been a prominent opponent of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Pope Paul III had made him a cardinal shortly before his death, a move that further angered Henry VIII.
• 1535 Charles V conquers Tunis Habsburg forces capture Tunis from Ottoman-backed corsairs Holy Roman Emperor Charles V personally led a large fleet and army against Tunis, then controlled by the Ottoman-allied corsair Hayreddin Barbarossa. The city fell on 21 July after the capture of the fortress of La Goulette, and thousands of Christian galley slaves were freed. Charles V restored the Hafsid ruler Muley Hassan as a Spanish vassal.
• 1535 Siege of Munster ends Anabaptist kingdom in Munster is crushed Forces of the Bishop of Munster stormed the city, ending sixteen months of Anabaptist rule under the self-proclaimed King John of Leiden. The radical Anabaptist kingdom, which had practiced communal property and polygamy, was violently suppressed. Surviving leaders were later tortured and executed, and the episode became a defining trauma of the Radical Reformation.