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March 2011 1554 1554 thumb|upright=1.35|February 12: Lady Jane Grey, who was declared Queen of England for nine days in 1553, is beheaded at the Tower of London thumb|upright=1.35|August 2: The battle of Marciano takes place in Tuscany. thumb|April 12: Mary of Guise becomes regent of Scotland until her daughter Mary comes of age. __NOTOC__ Year 1554 (MDLIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March January 5 – A great fire breaks out in Eindhoven, Netherlands. January 12 (10th waxing of Tabodwe 915 ME) – Bayinnaung is crowned king of the Burmese Taungoo Dynasty at his new capital at Pegu, after a previous coronation on January 11, 1551, and takes the regnal name of Thiri Thudhamma Yaza.Royal Historical Commission of Burma Royal Historical Commission of Burma Hmannan Yazawin 2 1832 Yangon my 2003 Ministry of Information, Myanmar 280–281 January 21 – Edward Courtenay, one of the four plotters of Wyatt's rebellion in England, is arrested and reveals that an attempt will be made to overthrow the English government.Thorp Malcolm R. Religion and the Wyatt Rebellion of 1554 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 47 4 1978 3164313 375 10.2307/3164313 January 25 – São Paulo, Brazil, is founded.University of Gauhati Journal of the University of Gauhati https://books.google.com/books?id=y9QMJ4lXdEAC 1952 The University 237 January 27 – Wyatt's rebellion begins in England at Maidstone as Sir Thomas Wyatt reads a proclamation that Queen Mary of England’s marriage to King Philip of Spain will "bring upon this realm most miserable servitude, and establish popish religion". Within two days, Wyatt has raised 2,000 soldiers to join his plan to overthrow Queen Mary.Fletcher Anthony Tudor Rebellions Longman Group Limited Second 1970 81 9780582313897 https://archive.org/details/tudorrebellions0000flet_t8l4/mode/2up 18 November 2021 January 30 – Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, one of the English conspirators in Wyatt's rebellion, leads troops from Leicester to Coventry, but the group finds that the gates of the city are closed because the rebellion has been exposed.Froude James Anthony The Reign of Mary Tudor London: J. M. Dent & Sons, New York: P. Dutton & Co. 1910 https://archive.org/details/reignofmarytudor01frou/mode/2up 8 December 2021 100–101 February 9 – Thomas Wyatt surrenders to government forces in London.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 150–153 0-7126-5616-2 February 12 – After claiming the throne of England the previous year, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. March 18 – Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of working with the organizers of Wyatt's rebellion for the overthrow of Queen Mary of England.Prescott H. F. M. Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor Phoenix 1953 Reissue 1953 325–326 9781842126257 https://archive.org/details/marytudorspanish0000pres 18 February 2022 April–June April 12 – Mary of Guise becomes Regent of Scotland. May 9 – Elizabeth is released from the Tower of London, although she continues to be confined at home after she is cleared of suspicion of conspiracy to overthrow the government. June 11 Italian General Piero Strozzi successfully defends an attack on the Republic of Siena by French troops, led by Cosimo de' Medici at the battle of Pontedera, but suffers a tremendous loss of his own troops in the process. A gunpowder explosion triggered by lightning causes fires that destroy much of the city of Luxembourg. July–September July 25– Queen Mary I of England marries King Prince Philip of Naples, the only son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and heir to the throne of Spain, at Winchester Cathedral just two days after their first meeting.David Loades, The Reign of Mary Tudor: Politics, Government and Religion in England, 1553–58 (Longman, 1991) pp. 224–225 0-582-05759-0Changing Places: The Marriage and Royal Entry of Philip, Prince of Austria, and Mary Tudor, July-August 1554 Alexander Samson The Sixteenth Century Journal 36 3 2005 761–784 10.2307/20477489 20477489 August 2 – Battle of Marciano: Senese–French forces are defeated by the Florentine–Imperial army. August 12 – Battle of Renty: French forces led by François, Duke of Guise turn back an invasion of Picardy, by Charles V. September 13 (Shawwal 15, 961 AH) – At the Battle of Tadla in Morocco, Mohammed ash-Sheikh, ruler of the Saadi dynasty enters the city of Fez and becomes the undisputed sultan. Ali Abu Hassun, last ruler of the Wattasid dynasty, flees.Jamil Marhi and Abu Al-Nasr, History of Morocco in the Islamic Era (Cambridge University Press, 1987) p.155 October–December October 8 – In Peru, an 11-month long rebellion by Francisco Hernández Girón is ended at the Battle of Pucará with the rebels defeated by the Viceroy of Peru near Cuzco.Severo Martinez Pelaez, La patria del criollo: ensayo de interpretación de la realidad colonial guatemalteca (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013)John Michael Francis 2006 https://books.google.com/books?id=OMNoS-g1h8cC&dq=pedro+de+la+gasca+jaquijahuana+early+americas&pg=PA235 235 Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia 1 ABC-Clio 1851094210 October 21 – The Plassenburg castle in Bavaria, residence of the ruling House of Hohenzollern in the Principality of Ansbach, is destroyed during the Second Margrave War.Geschichte der Stadt Kulmbach https://web.archive.org/web/20090129184824/http://stadt-kulmbach.de/pub/index.php?mid=19 2009-01-29 auf der städtischen Homepage November 1 – English captain John Lok, commanding three ships (the Trinitie, the Bartholomew and the John Evangelist), departs from Dartmouth in England to voyage to the Guinea Coast at West Africa.Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea Or Overland to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compass of These 1600 Years (1597, reprinted by J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1927) pp.47-50 ("The first day of November at nine of the clocke at night, departing from the coast of England, se set off...")Bernard Grun The Timetables of History 3rd New York Simon & Schuster 1991 245 0-671-74919-6 registration https://archive.org/details/timetablesofhist1991grunA general history and collection of voyages and travels 7 Robert Kerr Robert Kerr (writer) Edinburgh Blackwood 1824 229 https://books.google.com/books?id=T-BCAAAAcAAJ&q=Lok+Guinea+1554&pg=PA229 2011-11-27 November 22 – Upon the death of his father, Sultan Islam Shah Suri, 12-year-old Firuz Shah Suri becomes the Sultan of the Sur Empire at Delhi, but he is murdered within a few days. December 22 – The John Lok expedition reaches Guinea, anchoring at the Sesto River and remains for seven days to begin trading."p.50 ("The two and twentieth of December we came to the river of Sesto & remained there until the nine and twentieth day of said moneth.") Date unknown Mikael Agricola becomes the bishop of Turku. Saadi conquers the Kingdom of Fez. Exact center year of Counter Reformation. The name of the beer brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company is based on a recipe from this date, called "1554." Luso-Chinese agreement: Portugal reaches an agreement with the Ming Dynasty of China, to be allowed to legally trade in the province of Guangdong. This agreement is often seen as a starting point of the Portuguese colony of Macau. Rao Surjan Singh becomes ruler of Bundi. Births thumb|right|110px|Philip William, Prince of Orange January 1 – Louis III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1593) January 9 – Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)https://books.google.com/books?id=vWP_K-lZCB0C&pg=PA58 Pocket Dictionary of Popes Michael J. Walsh A&C Black 10 May 2006 58 9780860124207 January 20 – Sebastian, King of Portugal (d. 1578)https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA312 Dictionary of African Biography 1-6 Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Henry Louis Gates Henry Louis Gates OUP USA 2 February 2012 312–313 9780195382075 February 8 – Marina de Escobar, Spanish nun (d. 1633) February 27 – Giovanni Battista Paggi, Italian painter (d. 1627) March – Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (d. 1600) March 1 – William Stafford, English courtier and conspirator (d. 1612) March 18 – Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578-1588) (d. 1588) March 22 – Catherine de Parthenay, French noblewoman and mathematician (d. 1631) March 26 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611) March 28 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (d. 1581) March 30 – Paul Laurentius, German divine (d. 1624) April – Stephen Gosson, English satirist (d. 1624) April 15 – Simon VI, Count of Lippe, Count of Lippe-Detmold (1563-1613) (d. 1613) May 20 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594) June 3 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1604) June 5 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1621) June 21 – Joachim of Zollern, Titular Count of Hohenzollern (d. 1587) July 5 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592) October 1 – Leonardus Lessius, Jesuit theologian (d. 1623) October 3 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (d. 1628) October 10 – Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Lord of Rheda (d. 1606) October 20 – Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (d. 1594) October 28 – Enevold Kruse, Danish noble (d. 1621) October 30 – Prospero Farinacci, Italian jurist (d. 1618) November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier and poet (d. 1586)H. R. Woudhuysen Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 23 May 1996 Clarendon Press https://books.google.com/books?id=sz-sdBEhAHcC&pg=PA207 207 978-0-19-159102-0 December 17 – Ernest of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1612) December 19 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) date unknown Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (d. 1612) James Lancaster, English navigator (d. 1618) Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, and explorer (d. 1618) Francis Throckmorton, English conspirator (d. 1584) Deaths thumb|137x137px|João Manuel, Prince of PortugalJanuary 2 – João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Portuguese prince (b. 1537)https://books.google.com/books?id=zuwTAAAAYAAJ The Nautical Archeology of Padre Island: The Spanish Shipwrecks of 1554 J Barto Arnold, III Robert S. Weddle Academic Press 1978 151 9780120636501 January 11 – Min Bin, king of Arakan (b. 1493) January 16 Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. c. 1480) Ambrosius Moibanus, German theologian (b. 1494) January 23 Elizabeth Hussey, Baroness Hungerford, English noblewoman (b. 1510) thumb|142x142px|Lady Jane GreyFebruary 12 Lord Guildford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (executed) (b. 1536)Tower of London (London, England) Authorised Guide to the Tower of London https://books.google.com/books?id=zBgjAAAAMAAJ 1937 19 en Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (executed) (b. 1537)BBC - History - Historic Figures: Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554) https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/grey_lady_jane.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 22 March 2019 thumb|143x143px|Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkFebruary 21 Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498) Sibylle of Cleves, Electress consort of Saxony (b. 1512) February 23 – Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (b. c.1517) March 3 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503) April 11 – Thomas Wyatt the Younger, English rebel (executed) (b. 1521) April 23 – Gaspara Stampa, Italian poet (b. 1523) May 2 – William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament (b. 1507) June 19 Sixt Birck, German humanist (b. 1501) Philip II, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (b. 1509) June 28 – Leone Strozzi, French Navy admiral (b. 1515) August 25 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)thumb|right|110px|Francisco Vázquez de Coronado September 22 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1510) December 22 – Alessandro Bonvicino, Italian painter (b. 1498) December – John Taylor, Bishop of Lincoln (b. 1503) approx. date – Susannah Hornebolt, English artist (b. 1503) date unknown Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (b. 1492) Leo Africanus, Andalusian Berber writer (b. 1485) Sebastiano Serlio, Italian architect (b. 1475) Sir Hugh Willoughby, English Arctic explorer References