Year '1553' was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events of 1553
January - June
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May - First
Royal Charter granted to
St Albans
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June 26 -
Christ's Hospital and
King Edward's School, Witley created by
Royal Charter.
July - December
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July 6 -
Edward VI of England dies.
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July 9 -
Battle of Sievershausen -
Prince-elector Maurice of Saxony defeats the
Catholic forces of
Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Maurice is mortally wounded.
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July 10 -
Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed
Queen of
England - for the next nine days.
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July 18 -
Lord Mayor of London proclaims
Queen Mary as the rightful
Queen -
Lady Jane Grey willingly
abdicates.
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July 19 -
Lady Jane Grey is replaced by
Mary I of England as
Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
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August 3 -
Queen Mary arrives in
London.
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August 22 -
Duke of Northumberland, supporter of
Jane Grey, executed.
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September -
Protestant bishops in
England are arrested and
Roman Catholic bishops are restored.
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September 23 - The
Sadians consolidate their power in
Morocco by defeating the last of their enemies.
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October 27 -
Calvinists burn
Michael Servetus as a
heretic in
Geneva.
Undated
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Russia, Opening of the maritime way of the
White sea by the English explorer
Richard Chancellor, beginning of the trade with
England.
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Shanghai is fortified for the first time.
Births
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January 22 -
Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (died
1625)
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May 7 -
Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (died
1618)
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May 14 -
Margaret of Valois, queen of
Henry IV of France (died
1615)
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July 15 -
Archduke Ernest of Austria (died
1595)
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October 18? -
Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (died
1599)
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November 23 -
Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died
1617)
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December 13 - King
Henry IV of France (died
1610)
★ ''date unknown''
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Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (died
1633)
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Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator (died
1625)
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Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator (born ''c.''
1552 or 1553; died
1616)
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Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca (died
1598)
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Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (died
1578)
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Pierre de Rostegny, French jurist (died
1631)
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William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, English military leader (died
1613)
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Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (died
1617)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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February 19 -
Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (born
1511)
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February 25 -
Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of
Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (born
1492)
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April 9 -
François Rabelais, French writer
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May 28 -
Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian (born
1500)
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July 6 - King
Edward VI of England (born
1537)
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July 9 -
Maurice, Elector of Saxony (born
1521)
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August 8 -
Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born
1478)
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August 22 -
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (born
1501)
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October 7 -
Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (born
1500)
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October 16 -
Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (born
1472)
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October 27 -
Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (burned at the stake) (born
1511)
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October 30 -
Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (born
1489)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (born
1500)
:''See also .''