Major Events
- Jan 16 Ivan the Terrible, aged 17, crowns himself the 1st tsar of Moscow
- Jan 19 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is executed in the Tower of London for treason
- Jan 28 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as King of England
- Feb 20 King Edward VI of England crowned following the death of his father Henry VIII
- Mar 31 Henry II succeeds Francis I as King of France
- Apr 24 Battle of Muhlberg: Catholic forces under Emperor Charles V defeat Protestant princes John Frederick I and Philip I of Hesse
- May 16 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
- May 19 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
- Jun 13 Peace of Adrianople (Treaty of Edirne) King Ferdinand of Austria agrees to pay Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent 30,000 gold Forints for western Hungary
- Jun 21 Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
- More 1547 Events
Miguel de Cervantes
Henry VIII
Francis I of France
Hernán CortésFamous Weddings in 1547
- Feb 3 Russian Tsar Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible] (17) marries Anastasia Romanova (17)
Michelangelo
Charles V
Henry II
Suleiman the Magnificent