Year 1537 (MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June January Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England, is crushed. Battle of Ollantaytambo: Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui is victorious against the Spanish and their Indian allies led by Hernando Pizarro. March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers. March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese, in Brazil. April – Spanish conquest of the Muisca: Bacatá, the main settlement of the Muisca Confederation, is conquered by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, effectively ending the Confederation in the Colombian Eastern Andes. April 1 – The Archbishop of Norway Olav Engelbrektsson flees from Trondheim to Lier, Belgium. June 2 – Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls, who must not be enslaved or robbed. June 23 – Siege of Hamar ends with the arrest of Bishop Mogens Lauritssøn, and the Catholic rebellion is definitively ended in Norway. July–December July – Rodrigo Orgóñez occupies and sacks the Inca center of Vitcos but Manco Inca Yupanqui escapes and establishes the independent Neo-Inca State elsewhere in Vilcabamba, Peru. August 15 – Asunción is founded by Juan de Salazar de Espinosa. August 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. August-September – The Ottoman Empire fails to capture Corfu, but this year does conquer the islands of Paros and Ios. October 15 – Following the baptism of her son, the future Edward VI of England, Jane Seymour begins suffering from puerperal fever. Date unknown The Spaniards bring the potato to Europe. Kiritimati (Acea or "Christmas Island") is probably sighted by the Spanish mutineers from Hernando de Grijalva's expedition. Bangalore is first mentioned. Dissolution of the monasteries in Norway: Religious buildings dissolved by Christian III include: Bakke Abbey, Munkeby Abbey, Tautra Abbey, Nidarholm Abbey, Gimsøy Abbey and Utstein Abbey. Publication of complete Bible translations into English, both based on Tyndale's: Myles Coverdale's 1535 text, the first to be printed in England (by James Nicholson in Southwark, London) The Matthew Bible edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew" and printed in Antwerp. Ongoing Dissolution of the monasteries in England: Religious