1547

Year 1547 (MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1547

January - June

* January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes Tsar of Russia.
* January 28 - Edward VI succeeds his father Henry VIII as King of England.
* February 20 - Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
* April - Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
* March 31 - Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.
* April 24 - Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the forces of the Schmalkaldic League.

July - December

* September 10 - Battle of Pinkie: An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The English seize Edinburgh.

* December 2 - Hernán Cortés dies.

Undated

* The first book in the Lithuanian language is printed (author, Martynas Mazvydas).
* Huguenots increasingly immigrate to Kent, especially Canterbury.
* Chambre Ardente is established in Paris.

Births

* February 24 - Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)
* March 1 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
* June 28 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
* September 14 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
* September 22 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
* September 29 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (d. 1616)
* October 18 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
* November 12 - Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575)
*December 5 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
*"date unknown"
**Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter (d. 1616)
**Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (d. 1609)
**Peter Bales, English calligrapher (d. 1610)
**Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1583)
**Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
**Richard Stanyhurst, English translator of Virgil (d. 1618)
**Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606)
**Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (d. 1620)
**Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (d. 1620)
*"probable"
**Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (d. 1592)

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Deaths

* January 16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
* January 18 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (b. 1470)
* January 19 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
* January 28 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
* February 25 - Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)
* March 31 - King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
* May 22 - Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492)
* June 21 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)

* August 7 - Saint Cajetan, born in Vicenza (b. 1480)
* December 2 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (b. 1485)
* December 28 - Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
*"date unknown"
**Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
**Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. 1498)
**Mirabai, Rajput princess (b. 1498)

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