1553
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This article is about the year 1553. For the serial data bus standard, see MIL-STD-1553.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s |
| Years: | 1550 1551 1552 – 1553 – 1554 1555 1556 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1553 MDLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2306 |
| Armenian calendar | 1002 ԹՎ ՌԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6303 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -291–-290 |
| Bengali calendar | 960 |
| Berber calendar | 2503 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Edw. 6 – 1 Mar. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2097 |
| Burmese calendar | 915 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7061–7062 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年十二月十七日 (4189/4249-12-17) — to —
癸丑年十一月廿七日(4190/4250-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 1269–1270 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1545–1546 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5313–5314 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1609–1610 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1475–1476 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4654–4655 |
| Holocene calendar | 11553 |
| Iranian calendar | 931–932 |
| Islamic calendar | 960–961 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 22 (天文22年) |
| Korean calendar | 3886 |
| Minguo calendar | 359 before ROC 民前359年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2096 |
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Year 1553 (MDLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- May – The first Royal Charter is granted to St. Albans in England.
- June 26 – Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley, England, are created by Royal Charter.
[edit] July–December
- 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 – Four days after the death of her cousin, King Edward VI of England, Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England – a position she holds for the next nine days.
- July 18 – The Lord Mayor of London proclaims Mary I the rightful Queen; Lady Jane Grey voluntarily abdicates.
- July 19 – Queen Mary I of England begins her reign.
- August 3 – Queen Mary I of England arrives in London from East Anglia.
- August 22 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, a supporter of Lady Jane Grey, is executed.
- August – English explorer Richard Chancellor enters the White Sea and reaches Arkhangelsk, going on to the court of Ivan IV of Russia, opening up trade between England and Russia.
- 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 – Inquisition burns Michael Servetus as a heretic in Geneva.
- December 25 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and execute Pedro de Valdivia, the first Royal Governor of Chile.
[edit] Date unknown
- Tonbridge School founded by Sir Andrew Judde under letters patent of Edward VI of England.
- In Ming Dynasty China:
- The addition of a new section of the Outer City fortifications is completed in southern Beijing, bringing the overall size of Beijing to 18 square miles (4662 hectares).
- Shanghai is fortified for the first time.
[edit] Births
- January 22 – Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
- May 7 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (d. 1618)
- May 14 – Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1615)
- July 15 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
- October 8 – Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (d. 1617)
- October 18? – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (d. 1599)
- November 23 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
- December 13 – King Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
- date unknown
- Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (d. 1633)
- Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator (d. 1625)
- Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (d. 1632)
- Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca (d. 1598)
- Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1578)
- Pierre de Rostegny, French jurist (d. 1631)
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, English military leader (d. 1613)
[edit] Deaths
- February 19 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
- February 25 – Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
- April 9 – François Rabelais, French writer
- May 5 – Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (b. 1500)
- May 28 – Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian (b. 1500)
- July 6 – King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
- July 9 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
- August 8 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
- August 22 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (b. 1502)
- October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
- October 16 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
- October 27 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
- October 30 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
- date unknown – George Joye English Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1495)
