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For the serial data bus standard, see MIL-STD-1553.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| 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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Events of 1553
January - June
- May - The first Royal Charter is granted to St. Albans.
- June 26 - Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley are created by Royal Charter.
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 - a position she holds 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
- Tonbridge School founded by Sir Andrew Judde under the Letters Patent of King Edward VI.
- 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
| 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 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7061 – 7062 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年十二月十七日 (4189/4249-12-17) — to —
癸丑年十一月廿七日(4190/4250-11-27) |
| 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) |
| Korean calendar | 3886 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2096 |
- 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
- Patriarch Filaret of Moscow and All Rus' (d. 1633)
- Giovanni Florio, English writer and translator (d. 1625)
- Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator (b. c. 1552 or 1553; d. 1616)
- Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (d. 1632)
- Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca (d. 1598)
- Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1578)
- Pierre de Rostegny, French jurist (d. 1631)
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh, English military leader (d. 1613)
- Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian (d. 1617)
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 5 - Erasmus Alberus, German humanist (b. 1500)
- 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 - George Joye English Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1495)
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