Historical Events
- Jan 15 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
- Feb 16 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
- Mar 14 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands
- Apr 2 England & France sign 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- Apr 3 Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- May 10 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen mother Mary
- May 13 Exhumed corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
- Jun 22 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
- Jun 30 King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery
- Aug 9 Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland, Zealand and Utrecht
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Famous People Born in 1559
- Feb 18 Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
- Jul 22 Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
- Sep 12 Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter and architect, born in Tuscany, Italy (d. 1613)
- Nov 13 Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria (d. 1621)
- Nov 15 Albert VII, Archduke of Austria and cardinal-archbishop of Toledo, born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria (d. 1621)
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