Time Line 1540
Births
- Blessed Giambattista Lucarelli
- Blessed Gonzalo Diaz di Amarante
- Saint Edmund Campion
- Saint Pascal Baylon
- Blessed Ambrose de Feis
- Blessed Edward Powell
- Blessed Richard Featherstone
- Blessed Thomas Abel
- Blessed Thomas of Naples
- Blessed William Horne
- Saint Angela Merici
- Venerable Edmund Brindholm
Founded
Elevations
Other Events
- Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receive papal recognition
- diet of Worms
- dissolution of the Abbey of Athelney
1539 | 1541 |