1547

Year '1547' (MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1547

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1547

January - June

★ January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia.

★ January 28 - Edward VI succeeds his father Henry VIII as King of England.

★ February 20 - Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

★ April - Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.

★ march 31 - Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.

★ April 24 - Battle of Mühlberg - Emperor Charles V defeats the forces of the Schmalkaldic League.

July - December

★ September 10 - Battle of Pinkie. An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The English seize Edinburgh.

Undated

★ First printed book in the Lithuanian language. Author - Martynas Mazvydas.

★ Increased immigration of Huguenots to Kent, especially Canterbury.

★ Chambre Ardente is established in Paris.

Births

★ February 24 - Don John of Austria, military leader (died 1578)

★ March 1 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (died 1628)

★ June 28 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (died 1599)

★ September 14 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (died 1619)

★ September 22 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (died 1590)

★ September 29 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (died 1616)

★ October 18 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (died 1606)

★ November 12 - Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (died 1575)

★ December 5 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter (died 1616)

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★ Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (died 1609)

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★ Peter Bales, English calligrapher (died 1610)

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★ Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (died 1583)

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★ Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1603)

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★ Richard Stanyhurst, English translator of Virgil (died 1618)

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★ Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (died 1606)

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★ Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (died 1620)

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★ Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (died 1620)

★ ''probable''

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★ Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (died 1592)
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Deaths

★ January 16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)

★ January 18 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (born 1470)

★ January 19 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1517)

★ January 28 - King Henry VIII of England (born 1491)

★ February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (born 1490)

★ February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (born 1490)

★ March 31 - King Francis I of France (born 1494)

★ May 22 - Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (born before 1492)

★ June 21 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)

★ August 7 - Saint Cajetan, born in Vicenza (born 1480)

★ December 2 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (born 1485)

★ December 28 - Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (born 1465)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (born

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★ Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (born 1498)

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★ Mirabai, Rajput princess (born 1498)
: ''See also .''