What is 1542?
{{Year nav|1542}} {{Year in various calendars|1542}} {{Year article header|1542}} == 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]] – [[Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar|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 of Scotland|James V, King of Scotland]] [[Category:1542| ]]