1553

Year '1553' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1553

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1553

January - June

★ May - First Royal Charter granted to St Albans

★ June 26 - Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley created by Royal Charter.

July - December

★ July 6 - Edward VI of England dies.

★ July 9 - Battle of Sievershausen - Prince-elector Maurice of Saxony defeats the Catholic forces of Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Maurice is mortally wounded.


★ July 10 - Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England - for the next nine days.

★ July 18 - Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen - Lady Jane Grey willingly abdicates.

★ July 19 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.

★ August 3 - Queen Mary arrives in London.

★ August 22 - Duke of Northumberland, supporter of Jane Grey, executed.

★ September - Protestant bishops in England are arrested and Roman Catholic bishops are restored.

★ September 23 - The Sadians consolidate their power in Morocco by defeating the last of their enemies.

★ October 27 - Calvinists burn Michael Servetus as a heretic in Geneva.

Undated

★ Russia, Opening of the maritime way of the White sea by the English explorer Richard Chancellor, beginning of the trade with England.

★ Shanghai is fortified for the first time.

Births

★ January 22 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (died 1625)

★ May 7 - Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (died 1618)

★ May 14 - Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1615)

★ July 15 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (died 1595)

★ October 18? - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (died 1599)

★ November 23 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1617)

★ 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)
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Deaths

★ February 19 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1511)

★ February 25 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (born 1492)

★ April 9 - François Rabelais, French writer

★ May 28 - Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian (born 1500)

★ July 6 - King Edward VI of England (born 1537)

★ July 9 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (born 1521)

★ August 8 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born 1478)

★ August 22 - John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (born 1501)

★ October 7 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (born 1500)

★ October 16 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (born 1472)

★ October 27 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (burned at the stake) (born 1511)

★ October 30 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (born 1489)

★ ''date unknown'' - Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (born 1500)
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