1557

Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s

Years: 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 - 1557 - 1558 1559 1560 1561 1562

Events

• Spain is effectively bankrupt.
• June - Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain in his war against France.
• August 10 - Battle of St. Quentin - French forces under Marshal Anne de Montmorency are decisively defeated by the Spanish under Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy. Montmorency himself is captured, but Philip II refuses to press his advantage, and withdraws to the Netherlands.
• Emperor Ogimachi ascends to the throne of Japan

Births

• February 11 - John Uijtenbogaert Dutch remonstrant theologian.
• February 24 - Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
• Abbas I (Shah of Persia) was born

Deaths

• July 16- Anne of Cleves, divorced fourth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
• Emperor Go-Nara of Japan
• Mikael Agricola - finnish scholar

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