Major Events
- Feb 4 Reformer and bible translator John Roger is the first protestant martyr under Mary I, when he is burnt at the stake at Smithfield, London
- Feb 9 Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for heresy
- Apr 9 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
- Apr 17 Siena surrenders to Spanish troops
- May 23 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
- Jul 2 Turkish naval commander Dragut [Turgut Reis] sacks the Italian city of Paola
- Sep 25 Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
- Sep 30 Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
- Oct 21 English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
- Oct 21 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt, Lord of Culemborg
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Born in 1555
- Feb 25 Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (Versa est in luctum), baptized in Osuna, Habsburg Spain (d. 1617)
- Mar 2 Ludovico Spontoni, Italian Renaissance composer, baptized in Bologna, Papal States (d. pre 1609)
- Apr 21 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1619)
- Aug 1 Edward Kelley, British spirit medium and Renaissance occultist, born in Worcester, England (d. 1597)
- Sep 23 Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of William of Orange, born in Châtillon-sur-Loing, France (d. 1620)
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