1537

Tenmon 6 (天文六年)

Timeline of 1537

Ôuchi Yoshitaka sends a mission to Ming China pretending to represent the shogunate.
Pope Paul III issues a papal bull declaring that the people of newly discovered, non-Western, parts of the world are still human ("truly men").
The Ryûkyû Kingdom launches an invasion of Amami Ôshima.

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