1555

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1555 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1555
MDLV
Ab urbe condita2308
Armenian calendar1004
ԹՎ ՌԴ
Assyrian calendar6305
Balinese saka calendar1476–1477
Bengali calendar962
Berber calendar2505
English Regnal year1 Ph. & M.  2 Ph. & M.
Buddhist calendar2099
Burmese calendar917
Byzantine calendar7063–7064
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4251 or 4191
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4252 or 4192
Coptic calendar1271–1272
Discordian calendar2721
Ethiopian calendar1547–1548
Hebrew calendar5315–5316
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1611–1612
 - Shaka Samvat1476–1477
 - Kali Yuga4655–4656
Holocene calendar11555
Igbo calendar555–556
Iranian calendar933–934
Islamic calendar962–963
Japanese calendarTenbun 24 / Kōji 1
(弘治元年)
Javanese calendar1473–1475
Julian calendar1555
MDLV
Korean calendar3888
Minguo calendar357 before ROC
民前357年
Nanakshahi calendar87
Thai solar calendar2097–2098
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1681 or 1300 or 528
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1682 or 1301 or 529
February 4: John Rogers is burned at the stake.
September: Peace of Augsburg

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

  • July 12 Pope Paul IV creates the Roman Ghetto, the first Jewish ghetto in Rome.
  • September 25 The Peace of Augsburg is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League, establishing the principle Cuius regio, eius religio, that is, rulers within the Empire can choose the religion of their realm.
  • September The 1555 Kashmir earthquake causes widespread destruction and death in Kashmir, India.[5]
  • October 16
    • Battle of Miyajima Island: Mori Motonari defeats Sue Harukata.
    • Two of the Oxford Martyrs, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, are burned at the stake in England.
  • October 25 Charles V abdicates as Holy Roman Emperor and is succeeded by his brother Ferdinand.

Date unknown

  • Russia breaks a 60-year-old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland.
  • Humayun resumes rule of the Mughal Empire.
  • Second Battle of Panipat: Bairam Khan defeats Hindu forces.
  • The Adal Sultanate in the Horn of Africa collapses.
  • The Muscovy Company is chartered in England to trade with Muscovy[6] and Richard Chancellor negotiates with the Tsar.
  • English captain John Lok returns from Guinea, with five Africans to train as interpreters for future trading voyages.
  • Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, the Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés work Natural hystoria de las Indias and others, urging his countrymen to follow the lead of Spain in exploring the New World;[7] the work includes the first recorded use in English of the country name 'China'.
  • Establishment in England of the following grammar schools: Boston Grammar School, Gresham's School at Holt, Norfolk (founded by Sir John Gresham) and Ripon Grammar School (re-foundation).
  • William Annyas becomes the Mayor of Youghal, Ireland, the first Jew to hold such a position in Ireland.[8]
  • John Dee is charged, but cleared, of treason in England.
  • Orlande de Lassus' first book of madrigals is published, in Antwerp.
  • Lorenzo de' Medici orders a violin from Andrea Amati of Cremona.

Births

King Naresuan
  • January 26 Charles II, Lord of Monaco (d. 1589)
  • February 25 Alonso Lobo, Spanish musician (d. 1617)
  • March 18 François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (d. 1584)[9]
  • March 21 John Leveson, English politician (d. 1615)
  • March 31 Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Lennox, English countess (d. 1582)
  • April 21 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
  • April 28 Karl Friedrich of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, heir apparent of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (d. 1575)
  • May 5 Queen Uiin, Korean royal consort (d. 1600)
  • May 9 Jerónima de la Asunción, founder of the first Catholic monastery in Manila, the Monastery of Santa Clara (d. 1630)
  • May 29 George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English earl, general and administrator (d. 1629)
  • June 11 Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1627)
  • June 13 Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
  • June 16 Duke Otto Henry of Brunswick-Harburg, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (d. 1591)
  • July Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (d. 1606)
  • July 6 Louis II, Cardinal of Guise, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1588)
  • July 17 Richard Carew, English scholar (d. 1620)
  • August 1 Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
  • September 3 Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (d. 1628)
  • September 21 John Thynne, English landowner and politician (d. 1604)
  • September 23 Louise de Coligny, princess consort of Orange (d. 1620)
  • September 28 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
  • October 6 Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (d. 1604)
  • October 12 Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English baron (d. 1601)
  • November 8 Nyaungyan Min, king of Burma (d. 1605)
  • December 4 Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)
  • December 27 Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1621)
  • date unknown
    • Lancelot Andrewes, English clergyman and scholar (d. 1626)
    • Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1628)
    • Samuel Eidels, Polish Jewish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1631)
    • Joshua Falk, Polish Jewish rabbi and commentator (d. 1614)
    • Elijah Loans, German Jewish rabbi and kabbalist (d. 1636)
    • François de Malherbe, French poet (d. 1628)
    • Okudaira Sadamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)
    • Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian daimyō (d. 1600)
    • Moderata Fonte, Italian poet, writer and philosopher (d. 1592)
    • Maria van Schooten, Dutch war heroine (d. 1573)
    • Naresuan, King of Ayutthaya (d. 1605)

Deaths

King Henry II of Navarre
Saint Thomas of Villanova

References

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  3. Paul Johnson (1997). The Papacy. Barnes & Noble Books. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-7607-0755-5.
  4. Ronald Love (March 14, 2001). Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-0-7735-6884-6.
  5. "Significant Earthquake Information INDIA: KASHMIR: SRINAGAR". ngdc.noaa.gov. NCEI. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
  6. E. Goldsmid (ed.), The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, collected by Richard Hakluyt, Preacher, Vol. III: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part II: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage (E. & G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh 1886), pp. 101-112.
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  8. Ireland. Dept. of Foreign Affairs (1987). Ireland today. Information Section, Dept. of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
  9. Mack P. Holt (May 2, 2002). The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-521-89278-0.
  10. "Julius III | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
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