1553
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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 |
| 1553 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1553 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1553
[edit] January - June
- May - First Royal Charter granted to St Albans
- June 26 - Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley created by Royal Charter.
[edit] July - December
- July 6 - Edward VI of England dies.
- 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 - 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 3 - Queen Mary arrives in London.
- August 22 - Duke of Northumberland, supporter of Jane Grey, executed.
- 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 - Calvinists burn Michael Servetus as a heretic in Geneva.
[edit] Undated
- Russia, Opening of the maritime way of the White sea by the English explorer Richard Chancellor, beginning of the trade with England.
- Shanghai is fortified for the first time.
- In the Ming Dynasty of China, the addition of a new section of the Outer City is completed in southern Beijing, bringing the overall size of Beijing to 4 by 4½ miles.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1553 MDLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2306 |
| Armenian calendar | 1002 ԹՎ ՌԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -291 – -290 |
| Berber calendar | 2503 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2097 |
| Burmese calendar | 915 |
| 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) |
| Coptic calendar | 1269 – 1270 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1545 – 1546 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5313 – 5314 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1608 – 1609 |
| - 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) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2213 (皇紀2213年) |
| Korean calendar | 3886 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2096 |
- January 22 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (died 1625)
- May 7 - Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (died 1618)
- May 14 - Margaret of Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1615)
- July 15 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (died 1595)
- October 18? - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (died 1599)
- November 23 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1617)
- December 13 - King Henry IV of France (died 1610)
- date unknown
- Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (died 1633)
- Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator (died 1625)
- Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator (born c.1552 or 1553; died 1616)
- Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca (died 1598)
- Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (died 1578)
- Pierre de Rostegny, French jurist (died 1631)
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, English military leader (died 1613)
- Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (died 1617)
- See also Category: 1553 births.
[edit] 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
- May 28 - Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian (born 1500)
- July 6 - King Edward VI of England (born 1537)
- July 9 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (born 1521)
- August 8 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born 1478)
- 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)
- date unknown - Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (born 1500)
- See also Category: 1553 deaths.af:1553
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