1547

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

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

1547 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1547 MDXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2300
Armenian calendar	996 ԹՎ ՋՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6297
Balinese saka calendar	1468–1469
Bengali calendar	954
Berber calendar	2497
English Regnal year	38 Hen. 8 – 1 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2091
Burmese calendar	909
Byzantine calendar	7055–7056
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4243 or 4183     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4244 or 4184
Coptic calendar	1263–1264
Discordian calendar	2713
Ethiopian calendar	1539–1540
Hebrew calendar	5307–5308
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1603–1604
- Shaka Samvat	1468–1469
- Kali Yuga	4647–4648
Holocene calendar	11547
Igbo calendar	547–548
Iranian calendar	925–926
Islamic calendar	953–954
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 16 (天文１６年)
Javanese calendar	1465–1466
Julian calendar	1547 MDXLVII
Korean calendar	3880
Minguo calendar	365 before ROC 民前365年
Nanakshahi calendar	79
Thai solar calendar	2089–2090
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1673 or 1292 or 520     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1674 or 1293 or 521

April 24: Battle of Mühlberg

Events

January–June

• January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, a Catechism (Katekizmo paprasti žodžiai, Simple Words of Catechism), is published in Königsberg by Martynas Mažvydas.
• January 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death for treason in England.[1]
• January 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
• January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI as King of England.[2]
• February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.[3]
• March 31 – King Francis I of France dies at the Château de Rambouillet and is succeeded by his eldest surviving son Henry II (on his 28th birthday) as King of France.[4][5]
• April 4 – Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
• April 24 – Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League.

July–December

• August 13 – The Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France.
• September 10
  • Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: 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.
  • Conspirators led by Ferrante Gonzaga murder Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and son of the Pope, and hang his body from a window of his palace in Piacenza.

Date unknown

• Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent, especially Canterbury, from France.
• The Chambre Ardente is established in Paris for trying heretics.
• Work on construction of the Château de Chambord, in the Loire Valley, for Francis I of France, ceases.
• John Dee visits the Low Countries, to study navigation with Gemma Frisius.
• Edward VI of England outlaws execution by boiling.

Births

Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg

Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Miguel de Cervantes

Princess Sophia of Sweden

Claude of Valois

• January 15 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg, by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1590)
• January 20 – Laurence Bruce, Scottish politician (d. 1617)
• January 24 – Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Austrian Archduchess (d. 1578)
• February 8 – Girolamo Mattei, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1603)
• February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Syrian Arab co-founder of the Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621)
• February 24 – Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)
• March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
• March 26 – Bernardino Bertolotti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. 1609)
• April 8 – Lucrezia Bendidio, noblewoman and singer in Renaissance Ferrara (d. 1584)
• May 15 – Magnus Pegel, German mathematician (d. 1619)
• May 19 – Gustaf Banér, Swedish nobleman and member of the Privy Council of Sweden (d. 1600)
• June 28 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
• July 5 – Garzia de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1562)
• August 10 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1619)
• September 10 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596)
• September 14 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
• September 22 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
• September 20 – Faizi, Indo-Persian poet and scholar (d. 1595)
• September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish fiction writer (d. 1616)
• October 2 – Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1569-1614) and Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1604-1614) (d. 1614)
• October 18 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
• October 29 – Princess Sophia of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1611)
• November 7 – Rudolf Hospinian, Swiss writer (d. 1626)
• November 10
  • Martin Moller, German poet and mystic (d. 1606)
  • Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1601)
• November 12 – Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575)
• November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606)
• December 5 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
• December 15 – Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg, German noblewoman (d. 1633)
• 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)
  • Louis Carrion, Flemish humanist and classical scholar (d. 1595)
  • Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1583)
  • Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
  • Richard Stanihurst, English translator of Virgil (d. 1618)
  • Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (d. 1620)
  • Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (d. 1620)

Deaths

King Henry VIII of England

King Francis I of France

Saint Cajetan

Hernán Cortés

• January 5
  • Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1486)
  • Johann Heß, German theologian (b. 1490)
• 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 nobleman, politician and poet, beheaded (b. c.1517)[1]
• January 27 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1503)
• January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)[2]
• February 25 – Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)
• February 28 – Philippa of Guelders, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1467)
• March 31 – King Francis I of France (b. 1494)[4]
• April 11 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (b. 1504)
• May 22 – Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492)
• c. May – Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. c.1496)
• June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
• July 20 – Beatus Rhenanus, German humanist and religious reformer (b. 1485)
• August 7 – Saint Cajetan, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
• August 17 – Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)
• September 10 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1503)
• September 17 – Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (b. 1480)
• October 18 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1477)
• December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador of Mexico (b. 1485)[6]
• December 28 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
  • Meera (Mirabai), Rajput princess (b. 1498)
  • Photisarath, King of Laos (b. 1501)

References

1. "Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | English poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
2. "Henry VIII | Biography, Wives, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
3. Hunt, Alice (2008). The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 9781139474665.
4. "Francis I | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
5. "Henry II | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
6. "La tumba de Hernán Cortés, una historia fascinante" [The grave of Hernan Cortes, a fascinating story] (in Spanish). Mexico Desconocido. April 3, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2019.