1557

Year '1557' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1557

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1557

January - June

★ June - Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain in his war against France.

July - December

★ August 10 - Battle of St. Quentin - French forces under Marshal Anne de Montmorency are decisively defeated by the Spanish under Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy. Montmorency himself is captured, but Philip II refuses to press his advantage, and withdraws to the Netherlands.

★ September 11 - October 8 - Colloquy of Worms

Undated

★ Spain is effectively bankrupt.

★ Ozdemir Pasha conquers the Red Sea port of Massawa for the Ottoman Empire.

★ Equals sign is invented by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde.

★ Emperor Ogimachi ascends to the throne of Japan.

★ Gonville and Caius College is refounded by John Caius.

★ Hampton School, Hampton, London, England founded by Robert Hammond.

★ The Repton School is founded by Sir John Port.

★ The Portuguese settle in Macau.

Births

★ February 15 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (died 1585)

★ February 24 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1619)

★ May 31 - Tsar Feodor I of Russia (died 1598)

★ August 16 - Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (died 1602)

★ August 19 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (died 1608)

★ September 16 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (died 1627)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (died 1636)

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★ Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (died 1609)

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★ Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1612)

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★ Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange (died 1584)

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★ Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (died 1600)

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★ Olaus Martini, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1609)

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★ Thomas Morley, English composer (died 1602)

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★ Oda Nobutada, Japanese general (died 1582)
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Deaths

★ January 2 - Pontormo, Italian painter (born 1494)

★ January 8 - Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("Albert the Warlike"), Prince of Bayreuth (born 1522)

★ April 9 - Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (born c. 1510)

★ April 21 - Petrus Apianus, German astronomer (born 1495)

★ June 11 - King John III of Portugal (born 1502)

★ July 8 (date of will) - Geoffrey Glyn, by his will founding Friars School, Bangor

★ July 16 - Anne of Cleves, queen of Henry VIII of England (born 1515)

★ August 1 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (born 1490)

★ September 1 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (born 1491)

★ September 13 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (born 1514)

★ September 27 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (born 1497)

★ October 25 - William Cavendish, English courtier (born 1505)

★ November 19 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (born 1494)

★ December 13 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (born 1499)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Sebastian Cabot, explorer (born 1476)

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★ Thomas Crecquillon, Flemish composer (born 1490)

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★ Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (born 1478)

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★ Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator

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★ Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (born 1490)

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★ Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (born 1509)
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