What Happened in 1553

Major Events

  • Apr 29 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
  • Jun 12 English King Edward VI accepts Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's "Forty-two Articles" on church reformation
  • Jun 26 Christ's Hospital in London, England, granted a charter by King Edward VI to house and teach children of the poor
  • Jul 9 Battle at Sievershausen: Saxons-Brunwick alliance led by Elector Maurice defeat forces of Margrave Albert Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Bayreuth in a bloody battle with 4,000 killed
  • Jul 10 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England, succeeds Edward VI, who proclaimed his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.
  • Jul 19 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
  • Jul 21 John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge
  • Aug 12 Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
  • Aug 13 Spanish theologian and physician Michael Servetus arrested as a heretic in Geneva (put on trial the next day, eventually found guilty of heresy and burned to death)
  • Aug 23 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
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Famous Weddings in 1553

  • May 25 Lady Jane Grey (15), later Queen for 9 days, marries Lord Guildford Dudley (18) in a triple wedding at Durham House, London


Famous People in 1553

World Leaders in 1553