1557

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1520s  1530s  1540s  - 1550s -  1560s  1570s  1580s
Years:	1554 1555 1556 - 1557 - 1558 1559 1560

1557 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1557 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1557 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1557

January - June

• June - Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain in his war against France.

July - December

• August 10 - Battle of St. Quentin: French forces under Marshal Anne de Montmorency are decisively defeated by the Spanish under Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy. Montmorency himself is captured, but Philip II refuses to press his advantage, and withdraws to the Netherlands.
• September 11 - October 8 - The Colloquy of Worms convenes.

Undated

• Spain is effectively bankrupt.
• Özdemir Pasha conquers the Red Sea port of Massawa for the Ottoman Empire.
• The Equals sign is invented by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde.
• Emperor Ogimachi ascends to the throne of Japan.
• Gonville and Caius College is refounded by John Caius.
• Hampton School, Hampton, London, England founded by Robert Hammond.
• The Repton School is founded by Sir John Port.
• With the permission of the Ming Dynasty government of China and the benefit of both Western and Eastern merchants, the Portuguese settle in Macau, which was retroceded in 1999. Direct Sino-Portuguese trade had existed since 1513, but this is the first official legal treaty port on traditional Chinese soil that will be a long term Western settlement.
• War between Russia and Poland begins.
• Cossack chieftain Dimitrash tries to take Azov.
• Brentwood School (Brentwood), Essex, England, founded by Sir Antony Browne.

Births

1557 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1557 MDLVII
Ab urbe condita	2310
Armenian calendar	1006 ԹՎ ՌԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-287 – -286
Berber calendar	2507
Buddhist calendar	2101
Burmese calendar	919
Byzantine calendar	7065 – 7066
Chinese calendar	丙辰年十二月初一日 (4193/4253-12-1) — to — 丁巳年十二月十一日 (4194/4254-12-11)
Coptic calendar	1273 – 1274
Ethiopian calendar	1549 – 1550
Hebrew calendar	5317 – 5318
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1612 – 1613
- Shaka Samvat	1479 – 1480
- Kali Yuga	4658 – 4659
Holocene calendar	11557
Iranian calendar	935 – 936
Islamic calendar	964 – 965
Japanese calendar	Kōji 3 (弘治3年)
Korean calendar	3890
Thai solar calendar	2100
v • d • e

• February 15 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (d. 1585)
• February 24 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1619)
• May 31 - Tsar Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)

• August 16 - Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (d. 1602)
• August 19 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
• September 16 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
• date unknown
  • Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (d. 1636)
  • Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (d. 1609)
  • Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (d. 1612)
  • Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange (d. 1584)
  • Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (d. 1600)
  • Olaus Martini, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1609)
  • Thomas Morley, English composer (d. 1602)
  • Oda Nobutada, Japanese general (d. 1582)

See also Category: 1557 births.

Deaths

• January 2 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
• January 8 - Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("Albert the Warlike"), Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
• April 9 - Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510)
• April 21 - Petrus Apianus, German astronomer (b. 1495)
• June 11 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
• July 8 (date of will) - Geoffrey Glyn, by his will founding Friars School, Bangor
• July 16 - Anne of Cleves, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
• August 1 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (b. 1490)
• September 1 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
• September 13 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
• September 27 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
• October 25 - William Cavendish, English courtier (b. 1505)
• November 19 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
• December 13 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499)
• date unknown
  • Sebastian Cabot, explorer (b. 1476)
  • Thomas Crecquillon, Flemish composer (b. 1490)
  • Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (b. 1478)
  • Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator
  • Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (b. 1490)
  • Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (b. 1509)

See also Category: 1557 deaths.

---

No comments have been added.

Your name:
City:
Country:	USA UK India Pakistan UAE Saudi Arabia Germany Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burund Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Rep Chad Chile China Columbia Comoros Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic DR Congo Denmark Djiboutil Dominica Dominican Rep Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eq Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Grenadines Guatemala Guinea Bissau Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Neth Antilles Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Rawanda Romania Russia Sao Tome Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Korea South Africa Spain Sri Lanka St Kitts_Nevis St Lucia Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvala UAE Uganda Ukraine Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Western Samoa Yemen Yugoslavia Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe
Your comments:
Security check * (Please enter the number into adjoining box)