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Everything about 1553 totally explainedYear 1553 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1553
January - June
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 - The 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 - The Duke of Northumberland, a supporter of Jane Grey, is 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.
December 25 - Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and exetutes the governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia.
Undated
Russia: The maritime way of the White sea is opened by the English explorer Richard Chancellor, beginning 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.
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 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
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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 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. 1501)
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 - Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (b. 1500)
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