Timeline May 1536

Events in May 1536 4

• 1536 Siege of Cusco begins Manco Inca Yupanqui leads a mass uprising against Spanish rule Inca ruler Manco Inca Yupanqui led a massive indigenous army in besieging the Spanish garrison at Cusco, nearly retaking the former Inca capital. The siege lasted roughly ten months before Spanish forces broke it, though Manco Inca continued resistance from a jungle redoubt for decades. It was the most serious indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in Peru.
• 1536 Execution of Anne Boleyn Henry VIII's second wife beheaded at the Tower of London Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was convicted of treason, adultery, and incest on fabricated charges and beheaded at the Tower of London on 19 May 1536. Her fall cleared the way for Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour just days later. The execution remains one of the most notorious episodes of the English Reformation.
• 1536 Wittenberg Concord signed Lutheran and south German theologians reach agreement on the Eucharist Martin Luther and representatives of southern German and Swiss cities, led by Martin Bucer, signed the Wittenberg Concord, narrowing earlier disagreements over the nature of Christ's presence in the Eucharist. The agreement extended Lutheran unity further into southern Germany. Zurich's Reformed church, following Zwingli's teaching, did not accept it.
• 1536 Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour King's third wife becomes Queen of England Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's execution, Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, who would become the mother of his only legitimate son, Edward VI. The marriage was conducted privately at Whitehall Palace. Jane was proclaimed queen on 4 June 1536.