Events in History
- Jan 16 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V appoints his son Philip II, King of Spain
- Jan 23 Shaanxi Earthquake - deadliest ever recorded kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
- Jan 27 Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
- Feb 5 Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
- Feb 14 English Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
- Mar 22 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
- Mar 28 Karel V's son Philip II crowned King of Spain
- Mar 28 Origin of Fasli Era (India)
- Apr 13 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
- Sep 9 Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor
- Sep 12 Emperor Charles abdicates in favour of his brother Ferdinand I
Birthdays in History
- Jan 8 Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai daimyō, born in Echigo Province (d. 1623)
- Jan 27 Abbas I, "the Great," shah of Persia (1587-1629)
- Feb 7 Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren
- Mar 7 Guillaume du Vair, French writer and thinker, born in Paris (d. 1621)
- Mar 18 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant
- Nov 15 Jacques Davy Duperron, French Roman Catholic cardinal, born in Saint-Lô, Normandy, France (d. 1618)
Deaths in History
- Mar 19 Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
- Mar 21 Thomas Cranmer, English reformer, Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-55), burned at stake at 66
- Apr 18 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
- May 28 Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494?)
- Jul 31 Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest, theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus, dies in Rome at about 65
- Aug 25 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54
- Oct 31 John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50
- Nov 10 Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
- Nov 14 Giovanni Della Casa, Italian poet (Galateo), dies at 53
- Dec 23 Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)