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| Gregorian calendar | 1547 MDXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2300 |
| Armenian calendar | 996 ԹՎ ՋՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6297 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1468–1469 |
| Bengali calendar | 954 |
| Berber calendar | 2497 |
| English Regnal year | 38 Hen. 8 – 1 Edw. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2091 |
| Burmese calendar | 909 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7055–7056 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4244 or 4037 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4245 or 4038 |
| Coptic calendar | 1263–1264 |
| Discordian calendar | 2713 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1539–1540 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5307–5308 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1603–1604 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1468–1469 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4647–4648 |
| Holocene calendar | 11547 |
| Igbo calendar | 547–548 |
| Iranian calendar | 925–926 |
| Islamic calendar | 953–954 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 16 (天文１６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1465–1466 |
| Julian calendar | 1547 MDXLVII |
| Korean calendar | 3880 |
| Minguo calendar | 365 before ROC 民前365年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 79 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2089–2090 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1673 or 1292 or 520 — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1674 or 1293 or 521 |
Year 1547 (MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, Simple Words of Catechism, is published in Königsberg by Martynas Mažvydas.
- January 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- January 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
- January 28 – Edward VI succeeds his father Henry VIII, as King of England.
- February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- March 31 – Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.
- April 4 – Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
- April 24 – Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League.
July–December
- August 13 – The Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France.
- September 10 – Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The English seize Edinburgh.
Date unknown
- Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent, especially Canterbury.
- The Chambre Ardente is established in Paris for trying heretics.
- Work on construction of the Château de Chambord, in the Loire Valley, for Francis I of France, ceases.
- John Dee visits the Low Countries, to study navigation with Gemma Frisius.
- Edward VI of England outlaws execution by boiling.
Births
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- January 15 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg, by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1590)
- January 20 – Laurence Bruce, Scottish politician (d. 1617)
- January 24 – Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Austrian Archduchess (d. 1578)
- February 8 – Girolamo Mattei, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1603)
- February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Syrian Arab co-founder of the Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621)
- February 24 – Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)
- March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
- March 26 – Bernardino Bertolotti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. 1609)
- April 8 – Lucrezia Bendidio, noblewoman and singer in Renaissance Ferrara (d. 1584)
- May 15 – Magnus Pegel, German mathematician (d. 1619)
- May 19 – Gustaf Banér, Swedish nobleman and member of the Privy Council of Sweden (d. 1600)
- June 28 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
- July 5 – Garzia de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1562)
- August 10 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1619)
- September 10 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596)
- September 14 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
- September 22 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
- September 20 – Faizi, Indo-Persian poet and scholar (d. 1595)
- September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (d. 1616)
- October 2 – Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1569-1614) and Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1604-1614) (d. 1614)
- October 18 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
- October 29 – Princess Sophia of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1611)
- November 7 – Rudolf Hospinian, Swiss writer (d. 1626)
- November 10
- Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1601)
- Martin Moller, German poet and mystic (d. 1606)
- November 12 – Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575)
- November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606)
- December 5 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
- December 15 – Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg, German noblewoman (d. 1633)
- date unknown
- Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter (d. 1616)
- Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (d. 1609)
- Peter Bales, English calligrapher (d. 1610)
- Louis Carrion, Flemish humanist and classical scholar (d. 1595)
- Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1583)
- Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
- Richard Stanihurst, English translator of Virgil (d. 1618)
- Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (d. 1620)
- Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (d. 1620)
Deaths
- January 5
- Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1486)
- Johann Heß, German theologian (b. 1490)
- January 16 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
- January 18 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (b. 1470)
- January 19 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
- January 27 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1503)
- January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
- February 25 – Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)
- February 28 – Philippa of Guelders, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1467)
- March 31 – King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
- April 11 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (b. 1504)
- May 22 – Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492)
- June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
- July 20 – Beatus Rhenanus, German humanist and religious reformer (b. 1485)
- August 7 – Saint Cajetan, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
- August 17 – Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)
- September 10 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1503)
- September 17 – Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (b. 1480)
- October 18 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1477)
- December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (b. 1485)
- December 28 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
- date unknown
- Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
- Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. 1498)
- Meera (Mirabai), Rajput princess (b. 1498)
- Photisarath, King of Laos (b. 1501)