1552

Year '1552' was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1552

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1552

January - June

★ January 15 - Henry II of France and Maurice of Saxony sign the Treaty of Chambord.

★ February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of Valdivia in Chile.


★ February 24 - The privileges of the Hanseatic League are abolished in England.

★ March - The Act of Uniformity 1552 imposes the Protestant prayerbook in England.

★ March 26 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru

★ April - War breaks out between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun.

★ May - Maurice of Saxony captures Augsburg and almost seizes Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at Innsbruck.

July - December

★ August 2

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★ John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and Philipp I of Hesse, taken prisoner by Charles V in 1546, are released.

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★ Peace of Passau revokes the Augsburg Interim of 1548 and promises religious freedom to the Protestant princes.

★ October 2 - Khanate of Kazan falls to troops of Ivan IV of Russia.

★ September -In Hungary, Eger is defended against the Turks.

Undated

★ In the Persian Gulf, the Ottoman Empire Red Sea Fleet attacks the Portuguese stronghold of Hormuz but fails to capture it.

★ Spain's Bartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the ''New World, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies''.

★ In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi makes important discoveries on the structure of the ear and heart.

★ Christ's Hospital and Shrewsbury School are founded by Royal Charter of Edward VI

Births

★ February 1 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (died 1634)

★ February 8 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (died 1630)

★ February 19 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian statesman and cardinal (died 1630)

★ February 28 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (died 1632)

★ April 15 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (died 1626)

★ June 18 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (died 1637)

★ July 18 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1612)

★ August 24 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died 1614)

★ September 22 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)

★ October 6 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (died 1610)

★ December 29 - Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé (died 1588)

★ December 30 - Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (died 1611)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hans von Aachen, German mannerist painter (died 1615)

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★ Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (died 1585)

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★ Jean Bertaut, French poet (died 1611)

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★ Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator (born ''c.''1552 or 1553; died 1616)

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★ Philemon Holland, English translator (died 1637)

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★ Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Spanish politician (died 1625)

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★ Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese daimyo (died 1615)

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★ Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (died 1636)

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★ Jack Ward, English pirate (died 1622)
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Deaths

★ January 10 - Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (born 1479)

★ January 22 - Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English politician (born 1509)

★ February 26 - Heinrich Faber, German composer (born 1500)

★ April 18 - John Leland, English historian (born 1502)

★ June 10 - Alexander Barclay, British poet (born 1476)

★ August 15 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (born 1477)

★ October 14 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (born 1488)

★ October 17 - Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (born 1498)

★ December 2 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1506)

★ December 20 - Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (born 1499)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (born 1488)

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★ Philippe Verdelot, French composer (born 1475)

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★ Edward Edward Wotton, English zoologist (born 1492)
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