1553
| Years: 1550 1551 1552 - 1553 - 1554 1555 1556 | |
| Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
| 1553 by topic | |
| Arts and science | |
| Architecture - Art - Music - Science | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| Colonial governors - State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Works category | |
| Works | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1553 MDLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2306 |
| Armenian calendar | 1002 ԹՎ ՌԲ |
| Chinese calendar | 4189/4249-12-17 (壬子年十二月十七日) — to — 4190/4250-11-27(癸丑年十一月廿七日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1545 – 1546 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5313 – 5314 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1608 – 1609 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1475 – 1476 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4654 – 4655 |
| Iranian calendar | 931 – 932 |
| Islamic calendar | 960 – 961 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2096 |
Contents |
Events
June
- June 26 - Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley created by Royal Charter.
July
- July 6 - Edward VI of England dies.
- 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
- August 2 - Battle of Marciano: French forces invading Italy under Marshal Blaise de Monluc are defeated by an imperial army under the Marquis of Marignano and are forced to retreat into Siena, which is besieged by the imperial forces.
- August 3 - Queen Mary arrives in London.
- August 22 - Duke of Northumberland, supporter of Jane Grey, executed.
September
- 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
- October 27 - Calvinists burn Michael Servetus as a heretic in Geneve.
Unknown dates
- Battle of Sievershausen - Elector Maurice of Saxony defeats the catholic forces of Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Maurice is mortally wounded.
- Russia, Opening of the maritime way of the White sea by the English captain Chancellor, beginning of the trade with England.
- Shanghai is fortified for the first time.
Births
- January 22 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (died 1625)
- May 14 - Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1615)
- July 15 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (died 1595)
- November 23 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1617)
- December 13 - King Henry IV of France (died 1610)
- Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (died 1633)
- Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator (died 1625)
- Albert Frederick, duke of Prussia (died 1618)
- Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca (died 1598)
- Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (died 1578)
- Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (died 1599)
- Pierre de Rostegny, French jurist (died 1631)
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, English military leader (died 1613)
- Mori Terumoto, Japanese nobleman
- Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (died 1617)
See also Category: 1553 births.
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
- July 6 - King Edward VI of England (born 1537)
- July 9 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (born 1521)
- 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)
- Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian (born 1500)
- Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (born 1500)
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English historian and translator (born 1467)
- Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born 1478)
See also Category: 1553 deaths.
See also
Categories
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