- 1552
Year 1552 was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1552
January - June
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January 15 -Henry II of France and Maurice of Saxony sign theTreaty of Chambord .
*February 12 -Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of Valdivia inChile .*
February 24 - The privileges of theHanseatic League are abolished inEngland .
*March - TheAct of Uniformity 1552 imposes theProtestant prayerbook inEngland .
*March 26 -Guru Amar Das becomes the ThirdSikh Guru .
*April - War breaks out betweenHenry II of France andEmperor Charles V . Henry invades Lorraine and capturesToul ,Metz , and Verdun.
*May - Maurice of Saxony capturesAugsburg and almost seizesCharles V, Holy Roman Emperor atInnsbruck .July - December
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August 2
**John Frederick, Elector of Saxony andPhilipp I of Hesse , taken prisoner by Charles V in1546 , are released.
**ThePeace of Passau revokes theAugsburg Interim of1548 and promises religious freedom to theProtestant princes.
*October 2 - TheKhanate of Kazan falls to troops ofIvan IV of Russia .
*September - InHungary ,Eger is defended against the Turks.Undated
* In the
Persian Gulf , theOttoman Empire Red Sea Fleet attacks the Portuguese stronghold of Hormuz but fails to capture it.
*Spain 'sBartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the "New World ,A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ".
* InItaly ,Bartolomeo Eustachi makes important discoveries on the structure of theear andheart .
*Christ's Hospital andShrewsbury School are founded by Royal Charter ofEdward VI .
* The foundation ofLeeds Grammar School Births
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February 1 -Edward Coke , English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (d.1634 )
*February 8 -Agrippa d'Aubigné , French poet and soldier (d.1630 )
*February 19 -Melchior Klesl , Austrian statesman and cardinal (d.1630 )
*February 28 -Joost Bürgi , Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d.1632 )
*April 15 -Pietro Cataldi , Italian mathematician (d.1626 )
*June 18 -Gabriello Chiabrera , Italian poet (d.1637 )
*July 18 -Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d.1612 )
*August 24 -Lavinia Fontana , Italian painter (d.1614 )
*September 22 - TsarVasili IV of Russia (d.1612 )
*October 6 -Matteo Ricci , Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d.1610 )
*December 29 -Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé (d.1588 )
*December 30 -Simon Forman , English occultist and astrologer (d.1611 )
*"date unknown"
**Hans von Aachen , German mannerist painter (d.1615 )
**Thomas Aufield , English Catholic martyr (d.1585 )
**Jean Bertaut , French poet (d.1611 )
**Richard Hakluyt , English author, editor and translator (b. c.1552 or1553 ; d.1616 )
**Philemon Holland , English translator (d.1637 )
**Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma , Spanish politician (d.1625 )
**Dom Justo Takayama , Japanese daimyo (d.1615 )
**Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul , French diplomat (d.1636 )
**Jack Ward , English pirate (d.1622 ): "See also ."
Deaths
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January 10 -Johann Cochlaeus , German humanist and controversialist (b.1479 )
*January 22 -Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset , English politician (b.1509 )
*February 26 -Heinrich Faber , German composer (b.1500 )
*April 18 -John Leland , English historian (b.1502 )
*June 10 -Alexander Barclay , British poet (b.1476 )
*August 15 -Hermann of Wied , German Catholic archbishop (b.1477 )
*October 14 -Oswald Myconius , Swiss Protestant reformer (b.1488 )
*October 17 -Andreas Osiander , German Protestant theologian (b.1498 )
*December 2 -Francis Xavier , Spanish Jesuit missionary (b.1506 )
*December 20 -Katharina von Bora , wife ofMartin Luther (b.1499 )
*"date unknown"
**Sebastian Münster , German cartographer and cosmographer (b.1488 )
**Philippe Verdelot , French composer (b.1475 )
**Edward Edward Wotton , English zoologist (b.1492 ): "See also ."
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