Historical Events In 1534
May 10 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
May 10 Off Cape Bonavista Newfoundland Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sights Cape Bonavista after three week crossing from France; stopped ten days by ice; then skirts east coast of Newfoundland; his first voyage to Canada
May 12 Württemberg becomes Lutheran
Jan 24 François I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
Feb 26 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
Jun 09 Jacques Cartier first sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
Dec 06 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
Mar 26 Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
