Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1544 1545 1546 – 1547 – 1548 1549 1550

1547 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

Contents 1 Events of 1547 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1547

[edit] January–June

• January 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes 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.

[edit] July–December

• 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.

[edit] Undated

• The first book in the Lithuanian language is printed (author, Martynas Mazvydas).
• Huguenots increasingly immigrate to Kent, especially Canterbury.
• Chambre Ardente is established in Paris.

[edit] Births

1547 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1547 MDXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2300
Armenian calendar	996 ԹՎ ՋՂԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-297 – -296
Berber calendar	2497
Buddhist calendar	2091
Burmese calendar	909
Byzantine calendar	7055 – 7056
Chinese calendar	丙午年十二月初十日 (4183/4243-12-10) — to — 丁未年十一月二十日 (4184/4244-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1263 – 1264
Ethiopian calendar	1539 – 1540
Hebrew calendar	5307 – 5308
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1602 – 1603
- Shaka Samvat	1469 – 1470
- Kali Yuga	4648 – 4649
Holocene calendar	11547
Iranian calendar	925 – 926
Islamic calendar	953 – 954
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 16 (天文16年)
Korean calendar	3880
Thai solar calendar	2090
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• February 24 – Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)
• March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
• June 28 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
• September 14 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
• September 22 – Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
• September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (d. 1616)
• October 18 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
• November 12 – Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575)
• December 5 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
• date unknown
  • Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter (d. 1616)
  • Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (d. 1609)
  • Peter Bales, English calligrapher (d. 1610)
  • Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1583)
  • Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
  • Richard Stanyhurst, English translator of Virgil (d. 1618)
  • Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606)
  • Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (d. 1620)
  • Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (d. 1620)
• probable
  • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (d. 1592)

See also Category: 1547 births.

[edit] Deaths

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

• August 7 – Saint Cajetan, born in Vicenza (b. 1480)
• December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (b. 1485)
• December 28 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
  • Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. 1498)
  • Mirabai, Rajput princess (b. 1498)

See also Category: 1547 deaths.