1547

Year 1547 (MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1547

January - June

• January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar 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.
• April - Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
• march 31 - Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.
• April 24 - Battle of Mühlberg - Emperor Charles V defeats the forces of the Schmalkaldic League.

July - December events

• September 10 - Battle of Pinkie. 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.

• December 2 - Hernán Cortés dies.

Undated

• First printed book in the Lithuanian language. Author - Martynas Mazvydas.
• Increased immigration of Huguenots to Kent, especially Canterbury.
• Chambre Ardente is established in Paris.

Births

• February 24 - Don John of Austria, military leader (died 1578)
• March 1 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (died 1628)
• June 28 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (died 1599)
• September 14 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (died 1619)
• September 22 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (died 1590)
• September 29 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (died 1616)
• October 18 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (died 1606)
• November 12 - Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (died 1575)
• December 5 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
• date unknown
  • Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter (died 1616)
  • Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (died 1609)
  • Peter Bales, English calligrapher (died 1610)
  • Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (died 1583)
  • Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1603)
  • Richard Stanyhurst, English translator of Virgil (died 1618)
  • Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (died 1606)
  • Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (died 1620)
  • Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (died 1620)
• probable
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (died 1592)

See also Category: 1547 births.

Deaths

• January 16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
• January 18 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (born 1470)
• January 19 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1517)
• January 28 - King Henry VIII of England (born 1491)
• February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (born 1490)
• February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (born 1490)
• March 31 - King Francis I of France (born 1494)
• May 22 - Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (born before 1492)
• June 21 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)

• August 7 - Saint Cajetan, born in Vicenza (born 1480)
• December 2 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (born 1485)
• December 28 - Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (born 1465)
• date unknown
  • Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (born
  • Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (born 1498)
  • Mirabai, Rajput princess (born 1498)

See also Category: 1547 deaths.af:1547

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