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Calendar year
February 12 : Lady Jane Grey, who was declared Queen of England for nine days in 1553, is beheaded at the Tower of London
August 2 : The
battle of Marciano takes place in
Tuscany .
April 12 :
Mary of Guise becomes regent of Scotland until King James Vi comes of age.
Year 1554 (
MDLIV ) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–March
January 5 – A great fire breaks out in
Eindhoven , Netherlands.
January 11 – A Spanish army
is defeated by local
Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross
Bueno River in
Southern Chile .
[1]
January 12 (10th waxing of Tabodwe 915 ME) –
Bayinnaung is crowned king of the Burmese
Taungoo Dynasty at his new capital at
Pegu , after a previous coronation on January 11, 1551, and takes the regnal name of Thiri Thudhamma Yaza.
[2]
January 21 –
Edward Courtenay , one of the four plotters of
Wyatt's rebellion in England, is arrested and reveals that an attempt will be made to overthrow the English government.
[3]
January 25 –
São Paulo ,
Brazil , is founded.
[4]
January 27 –
Wyatt's rebellion begins in England at
Maidstone as
Sir Thomas Wyatt reads a proclamation that Queen Mary of England’s marriage to King Philip of Spain will "bring upon this realm most miserable servitude, and establish popish religion". Within two days, Wyatt has raised 2,000 soldiers to join his plan to overthrow Queen Mary.
[5]
January 30 –
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk , one of the English conspirators in Wyatt's rebellion, leads troops from
Leicester to
Coventry , but the group finds that the gates of the city are closed because the rebellion has been exposed.
[6]
February 9 –
Thomas Wyatt surrenders to government forces in
London .
[7]
February 12 – After claiming the throne of
England the previous year,
Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
March 18 – Princess
Elizabeth is imprisoned in the
Tower of London on charges of working with the organizers of
Wyatt's rebellion for the overthrow of Queen Mary of England.
[8]
April–June
July–September
July 25 – Queen
Mary I of England
marries King
Prince Philip of Naples , the only son of
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and heir to the throne of Spain, at
Winchester Cathedral just two days after their first meeting.
[9]
[10]
August 2 –
Battle of Marciano :
Senese –French forces are defeated by the
Florentine –
Imperial army.
August 12 –
Battle of Renty : French forces led by
Francis, Duke of Guise turn back an invasion of
Picardy , by Charles V.
September 13 (Shawwal 15, 961 AH) – At the
Battle of Tadla in Morocco,
Mohammed ash-Sheikh , ruler of the
Saadi dynasty enters the city of Fez and becomes the undisputed sultan.
Ali Abu Hassun , last ruler of the Wattasid dynasty, flees.
[11]
October–December
October 8 – In Peru, an 11-month long rebellion by
Francisco Hernández Girón is ended at the
Battle of Pucará with the rebels defeated by the Viceroy of Peru near
Cuzco .
[12]
[13]
October 21 – The
Plassenburg castle in Bavaria, residence of the ruling
House of Hohenzollern in the
Principality of Ansbach , is destroyed during the
Second Margrave War .
[14]
November 1 – English captain
John Lok , commanding three ships (the Trinitie , the Bartholomew and the John Evangelist ), departs from Dartmouth in England to voyage to the
Guinea Coast at West Africa.
[15]
[16]
[17]
November 22 – Upon the death of his father, Sultan
Islam Shah Suri , 10-year-old
Firuz Shah Suri becomes the Sultan of the
Sur Empire at
Delhi , but he is murdered within a few days.
December 22 – The John Lok expedition reaches
Guinea , anchoring at the Sesto River and remains for seven days to begin trading.
[15] "
[18]
Date unknown
Births
Philip William, Prince of Orange
January 1 –
Louis III, Duke of Württemberg (d.
1593 )
January 9 –
Pope Gregory XV (d.
1623 )
[19]
January 20 – King
Sebastian of Portugal (d.
1578 )
[20]
February 8 –
Marina de Escobar , Spanish nun (d.
1633 )
February 27 –
Giovanni Battista Paggi , Italian painter (d.
1627 )
March –
Richard Hooker , Anglican theologian (d.
1600 )
March 1 –
William Stafford , English courtier and conspirator (d.
1612 )
March 18 –
Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg , Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578-1588) (d.
1588 )
March 22 –
Catherine de Parthenay , French noblewoman and mathematician (d.
1631 )
March 26 –
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne , French military leader (d.
1611 )
March 28 –
Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (d.
1581 )
March 30 –
Paul Laurentius , German divine (d.
1624 )
April –
Stephen Gosson , English satirist (d.
1624 )
April 15 –
Simon VI, Count of Lippe , Count of Lippe-Detmold (1563-1613) (d.
1613 )
May 20 –
Paolo Bellasio , Italian composer (d.
1594 )
June 3 –
Pietro de' Medici , Italian noble (d.
1604 )
June 5 –
Benedetto Giustiniani , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1621 )
June 21 –
Joachim of Zollern , Titular Count of Hohenzollern (d.
1587 )
July 5 –
Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d.
1592 )
October 1 –
Leonardus Lessius , Jesuit theologian (d.
1623 )
October 3 –
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke , English poet (d.
1628 )
October 10 –
Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Lord of Rheda (d.
1606 )
October 20 –
Bálint Balassi , Hungarian writer and noble (d.
1594 )
October 28 –
Enevold Kruse , Danish noble (d.
1621 )
October 30 –
Prospero Farinacci , Italian jurist (d.
1618 )
November 30 –
Sir Philip Sidney , English courtier and poet (d.
1586 )
[21]
December 17 –
Ernest of Bavaria , Roman Catholic bishop (d.
1612 )
December 19 –
Philip William, Prince of Orange (d.
1618 )
date unknown
Deaths
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
January 2 –
João Manuel, Prince of Portugal , Portuguese prince (b.
1537 )
[22]
January 11 –
Min Bin , king of Arakan (b.
1493 )
January 16
February 12
February 21
February 23 –
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk , English politician (executed) (b. c.
1515 )
March 3 –
John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b.
1503 )
April 11 –
Thomas Wyatt the Younger , English rebel (executed) (b.
1521 )
April 23 –
Gaspara Stampa , Italian poet (b.
1523 )
May 2 –
William Waldegrave , English Member of Parliament (b.
1507 )
June 19
June 28 –
Leone Strozzi , French Navy admiral (b.
1515 )
August 25 –
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English politician (b.
1473 )
September 22 –
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado , Spanish conquistador (b. c.
1510 )
December 22 –
Alessandro Bonvicino , Italian painter (b.
1498 )
December –
John Taylor , Bishop of Lincoln (b.
1503 )
approx. date –
Susannah Hornebolt , English artist (b. 1503)
date unknown
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