Time Line 1541
- diet of Ratisbon
- Saint Francis Xavier and companions sail for Goa, the first modern Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola first superior-general of the Jesuits
- death of Blessed Margaret Pole
- death of Blessed Herculanus of Piegare
- birth of Saint John Leonardi
| 1540 | 1542 |
