Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s  1530s  1540s  – 1550s –  1560s  1570s  1580s
Years:	1552 1553 1554 – 1555 – 1556 1557 1558

1555 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 1555 (MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1555 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1555

[edit] January–June

• February 2 – The Diet of Augsburg begins.
• February 4 – John Rogers becomes the first Protestant martyr in England under Mary I.
• February 8 – Laurence Saunders is led barefoot to his execution and burned at the stake.
• February 9 – Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk is the third leading Protestant martyr/Christian martyr to suffer from Queen "Bloody Mary's" (Mary I) reign. He along with the Bishop of Gloucester, John Hooper, are burned at the stake.
• April 10 – Pope Marcellus II succeeds Pope Julius III as the 222nd pope.
• April 17 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine–Imperial army.
• May 23 – Pope Paul IV succeeds Pope Marcellus II as the 223rd pope.

[edit] July–December

• July 12 – Pope Paul IV creates the first Jewish ghetto in Rome.
• September 25 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed.
• October 16 – Latimer and Ridley, English Protestant martyrs, are burned at the stake.

[edit] Undated

• Russia breaks a 60-year-old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland.
• Gresham's School is founded by Sir John Gresham
• Humayun starts to rule the Mughal Empire a second time.
• Bairam Khan defeats Hindu forces at Panipat.
• "Negro" – the Spanish term for "black person" is coined.
• William Annyas becomes the Mayor of Youghal, Ireland, the first Jew to hold such a position in Ireland or Britain.

[edit] Births

1555 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1555 MDLV
Ab urbe condita	2308
Armenian calendar	1004 ԹՎ ՌԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-289 – -288
Bengali calendar	962
Berber calendar	2505
Buddhist calendar	2099
Burmese calendar	917
Byzantine calendar	7063 – 7064
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十二月初九日 (4191/4251-12-9) — to — 乙卯年閏十一月十八日 (4192/4252-intercalary 11-18)
Coptic calendar	1271 – 1272
Ethiopian calendar	1547 – 1548
Hebrew calendar	5315 – 5316
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1610 – 1611
- Shaka Samvat	1477 – 1478
- Kali Yuga	4656 – 4657
Holocene calendar	11555
Iranian calendar	933 – 934
Islamic calendar	962 – 963
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 24Kōji 1 (弘治元年)
Korean calendar	3888
Thai solar calendar	2098
v • d • e

• March 18 – François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (d. 1584)
• April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
• June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1627)
• August 1 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
• September 28 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
• December 4 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)
• December 27 – Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1621)
• date unknown
  • Richard Carew, Cornish translator and antiquary (d. 1620)
  • Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1628)
  • Samuel Eidels, Rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1631)
  • Joshua Falk, Rabbi and commentator (d. 1614)
  • Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (d. 1606)
  • Lancelot Andrewes, English clergyman and scholar (d. 1626)
  • François de Malherbe, French poet (d. 1628)
  • Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (d. 1628)
  • Okudaira Sadamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)
  • Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian daimyo (d. 1600)

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (b. 1478)
• February 4 – John Rogers, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1500)
• February 8 – Laurence Saunders, English clergyman (burned at the stake)
• February 9
  • John Hooper, English churchman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1497)
  • Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (burned at the stake) (b. 1510)
• March 14 – John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)
• March 23 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
• April 12 – Joanna of Castile, queen of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
• April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English historian (b. 1470)
• April 30 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
• May 25
  • Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
  • Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
• August 25 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (b. 1473)
• September 8 – Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop (b. 1488)
• October 9 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
• October 16
  • Hugh Latimer, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1487)
  • Nicholas Ridley, English clergyman (burned at the stake)
• October 25 – Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (b. 1526)
• November 12 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (b. 1493)
• November 21 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
• December – Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (b. 1487)