Today in History for Year 1553

Months in Year 1553: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 16 of 16

Apr 29th - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
Jun 12th - King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles"
Jun 26th - Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter
Jul 9th - Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades
Jul 10th - Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England
Jul 19th - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
Jul 20th - PM John Dudley captured in Cambridge
Aug 12th - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
Aug 13th - Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
Aug 23rd - Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
Sep 8th - City of Lichfield, England forms
Sep 13th - English Hugh Latimer arrested
Oct 21st - Volumes of Talmud are burned
Oct 27th - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
Nov 13th - English Lady Jane Grey/Bishop Cranmer accused of high treason
Dec 25th - Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and exetutes the governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 10 of 10

Jan 22nd - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
Mar 29th - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613 or 1614)
Apr 30th - Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
May 14th - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
Jun 5th - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
Jun 15th - Ernst, archduke of Austria/governor of the Netherlands
Jul 15th - Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
Nov 23rd - Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
Dec 13th - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
Dec 14th - Henri IV the Bourbon, King of Navarra (Henri III)/France

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

May 21st - English queen for 9 days, Lady Jane Grey (16 or 17) marries Lord Guildford Dudley

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 17 of 17

Feb 4th - Caspar Othmayr, composer, dies at 37
Feb 19th - Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
Feb 25th - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
Apr 9th - Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49
Jul 6th - Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15
Jul 9th - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
Jul 11th - Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32
Aug 8th - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
Aug 17th - Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
Aug 22nd - John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded
Sep 4th - Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake
Oct 7th - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
Oct 16th - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
Oct 19th - Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, [de' Pitati], Italian painter, dies
Oct 27th - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy
Oct 30th - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
Dec 14th - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)