1547

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

Events

January–June

* January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, a ''Catechism'' (, Simple Words of Catechism), is published in Königsberg by Martynas Mažvydas.
* January 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death for treason in England.
* January 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
* January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI, as King of England.
* February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
* March 31 – King Francis I of France dies at the Château de Rambouillet and is succeeded by his eldest surviving son Henry II (on his 28th birthday) as King of France.
* April 4 – Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
* April 24 – Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League.

July–December

* August 13 – The Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France.
* September 10
** Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: 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.
** Conspirators led by Ferrante Gonzaga murder Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and son of the Pope, and hang his body from a window of his palace in Piacenza.

Date unknown

* Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent, especially Canterbury, from France.
* The Chambre Ardente is established in Paris for trying heretics.
* Work on construction of the Château de Chambord, in the Loire Valley, for Francis I of France, ceases.
* John Dee visits the Low Countries, to study navigation with Gemma Frisius.
* Edward VI of England outlaws execution by boiling.

Births

* January 15 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg, by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1590)
* January 20 – Laurence Bruce, Scottish politician (d. 1617)
* January 24 – Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Austrian Archduchess (d. 1578)
* February 8 – Girolamo Mattei, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1603)
* February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Syrian Arab co-founder of the Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621)
* February 24 – Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)
* March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
* March 26 – Bernardino Bertolotti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. 1609)
* April 8 – Lucrezia Bendidio, noblewoman and singer in Renaissance Ferrara (d. 1584)
* May 15 – Magnus Pegel, German mathematician (d. 1619)
* May 19 – Gustaf Banér, Swedish nobleman and member of the Privy Council of Sweden (d. 1600)
* June 28 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
* July 5 – Garzia de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1562)
* August 10 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1619)
* September 10 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596)
* September 14 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)
* September 22 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
* September 20 – Faizi, Indo-Persian poet and scholar (d. 1595)
* September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish fiction writer (d. 1616)
* October 2 – Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1569-1614) and Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1604-1614) (d. 1614)
* October 18 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
* October 29 – Princess Sophia of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1611)
* November 7 – Rudolf Hospinian, Swiss writer (d. 1626)
* November 10
** Martin Moller, German poet and mystic (d. 1606)
** Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1601)
* November 12 – Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575)
* November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606)
* December 5 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
* December 15 – Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg, German noblewoman (d. 1633)
* ''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)
** Louis Carrion, Flemish humanist and classical scholar (d. 1595)
** Oichi, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1583)
** Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
** Richard Stanihurst, English translator of Virgil (d. 1618)
** Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (d. 1620)
** Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (d. 1620)

Deaths

* January 5
** Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1486)
** Johann Heß, German theologian (b. 1490)
* 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 nobleman, politician and poet, beheaded (b. c.1517)
* January 27 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1503)
* January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
* February 25 – Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490)
* February 28 – Philippa of Guelders, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1467)
* March 31 – King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
* April 11 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (b. 1504)
* May 22 – Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492)
* c. May – Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. c.1496)
* June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
* July 20 – Beatus Rhenanus, German humanist and religious reformer (b. 1485)
* August 7 – Saint Cajetan, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
* August 18 – Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)
* September 10 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1503)
* September 17 – Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (b. 1480)
* October 18 – Jacopo Sadoleto, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1477)
* December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador of Mexico (b. 1485)
* December 28 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
* ''date unknown''
** Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
** Meera, Meera (Mirabai), Rajput princess (b. 1498)
** Photisarath, King of Laos (b. 1501)

References

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