1555

Year '1555' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1555

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1555

January - June

★ February 2 - Diet of Augsburg begins.

★ February 4 - John Rogers becomes first Protestant martyr in England under Mary I.

★ February 8 - Laurence Saunders is led barefoot to his execution and burned at the stake.

★ February 9 - Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk and was the third leading Protestant Martyr / Christian Martyr who suffered from Queen "Bloody Mary's" (Mary I) reign. He along with the Bishop of Gloucester, John Hooper, were burned at the stake, on Saturday, February 9, 1555.

★ April 10 - Pope Marcellus II succeeds Pope Julius III as the 222nd pope.

★ April 17 - After 18 months of siege Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army.

★ May 23 - Pope Paul IV succeeds Pope Marcellus II as the 223rd pope.

July - December

★ September 25 - Peace of Augsburg is signed.

★ October 16 - Latimer and Ridley, English Protestant martyrs, burned at the stake.

Undated

★ Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland.

★ Gresham's School founded by Sir John Gresham.

Births

★ March 18 - François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (died 1584)

★ April 21 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619)

★ June 11 - Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and music theorist (died 1627)

★ August 1 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (died 1597)

★ September 28 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (died 1623)

★ December 4 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (died 1625)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian (died 1621)

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★ Richard Carew, Cornish translator and antiquary (died 1620)

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★ Thomas Cavendish, English explorer (died 1592)

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★ Adam Sedziwoj Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman (died 1628)

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★ Samuel Edels, Rabbi and Talmudist (died 1631)

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★ Joshua Falk, Rabbi and commentator (died 1614)

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★ Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (died 1606)

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★ Lancelot Andrewes, English clergyman and scholar (died 1626)

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★ François de Malherbe, French poet (died 1628)

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★ Jan Zbigniew Ossolinski, Polish nobleman (died 1628)

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★ Okudaira Sadamasa, Japanese nobleman (died 1615)

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★ Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian daimyo (died 1600)
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Deaths

★ February 4 - John Rogers, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (born c1500)

★ February 8 - Laurence Saunders, English clergyman (burned at the stake)

★ February 9

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★ John Hooper, English churchman (burned at the stake) (born c1497)

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★ Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (burned at the stake) (born 1510)

★ March 14 - John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (born 1485)

★ March 23 - Pope Julius III (born 1487)

★ April 12 - Joanna of Castile, queen of Philip I of Castile (born 1479)

★ April 30 - Pope Marcellus II (born 1501)

★ May 25

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★ Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born 1508)

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★ Henry II of Navarre (born 1503)

★ August 25 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (born 1473)

★ September 8 - Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop (born 1488)

★ October 9 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (born 1493)

★ October 16

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★ Hugh Latimer, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (born c1487)

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★ Nicholas Ridley, English clergyman (burned at the stake)

★ October 25 - Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (born 1526)

★ November 12 - Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (born 1493)

★ November 21 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (born 1490)

★ December - Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (born 1487)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (born 1478)

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★ Polydore Vergil, English historian (born 1470)
: ''See also .''