completes his
Tabulae anatomicae.
January–March •
January 15 –
Henry II of France and
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, sign the
Treaty of Chambord. •
February 12 –
Pedro de Valdivia founds the
Chilean city of
Valdivia, as
Santa María la Blanca de Valdivia. •
February 24 – The privileges of the
Hanseatic League are abolished in
England. •
March 26 –
Guru Amar Das becomes the Third
Sikh Guru.
April–June •
April 8 –
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, liberates
Augsburg and sets about to capture
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. •
April 11 –
Metz Cathedral is consecrated. •
April 15 – The
Act of Uniformity is given
royal assent and imposes use of the
Protestant Book of Common Prayer on
England. •
April 16 –
Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of
La Imperial, Chile. •
April 18 – King
Henry II of France enters the city of
Metz, ceded to France by Saxony by the January 15
Treaty of Chambord. •
April 28 – The delegates to the
Council of Trent adjourn for two years after learning that the Holy Roman Emperor is fleeing from Maurice of Saxony. •
May 20 – Learning of the rapid approach of the Elector Maurice, the Emperor Charles V flees from
Innsbruck ahead of being captured. •
June 6 (14th waxing of Waso 914
ME) –
Minye Sithu is appointed as the Burmese
Viceroy of
Martaban by his older brother,
Bayinnaung, King of Burma. •
June 16 –
Yuri of Uglich, the only brother of the Russian Tsar
Ivan the Terrible, is placed in charge of Russia's domestic affairs as Ivan departs
Moscow to lead 150,000 troops in the
Russo-Kazan War. •
June 22 –
Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, the
Spanish Governor of Luxembourg, is taken prisoner by France and remains captive for almost five years. •
June 24 – The
Portuguese ship
São João is wrecked off of the coast of South Africa. While 480 people survive initially, all but 25 of them die during the next 165 days while trying to reach the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now
Mozambique.
July–September •
July 6 – In Hungary,
Drégely Castle is attacked by the
Ottoman Empire. Captain
György Szondy and c. 140 soldiers in the castle die, after 4 days of fighting against 8,000 Turkish raiders. •
July 27 – The
Ottomans capture the city of
Temesvar. •
August 2 •
John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and
Philipp I of Hesse, taken prisoner by
Charles V in
1546, are released. • The
Peace of Passau revokes the
Augsburg Interim of
1548, and promises religious freedom to the
Protestant princes. •
September 9 – The
Siege of Eger begins as thousands of Ottoman troops, led by General
Kara Ahmed Pasha of the
Ottoman Empire attack a greatly outnumbered force of Hungarian defenders, captained by
István Dobó. •
September 24 – The
Debatable Lands on the border of
England and
Scotland are divided between the two kingdoms by a commission creating the
Scots' Dike in an unsuccessful attempt to halt lawlessness here, but giving both countries their modern borders.
October–December •
October 2 – The
Khanate of Kazan falls to troops of
Ivan IV of Russia. •
October 17 – After heavy losses by the Ottoman Empire, the Siege of Eger in Hungary is broken off by the Ottomans. •
November 15 –
Radu Ilie Haidăul becomes the new
Prince of Wallachia in what is now Romania after defeating Prince Mircea the Shepherd at the
battle of Mănești. Prince Mircea retakes the throne seven months later. •
November 18 –
Simeon Sulaka arrives in
Rome from the Middle Eastern city of
Mosul and brings a letter asking
Pope Julius III to appoint him as the Patriarch of the
Church of the East, leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church. •
November 24 –
Thomas Cranmer,
Archbishop of Canterbury and top cleric of the
Church of England, delivers the proposed
Forty-two Articles to the Privy Council of
King Edward VI. •
December 26 –
Pope Julius III issues a papal brief revoking resolutions passed by the
colegii Papal State of Bologna in Italy.
Date unknown •
Miguel de Buría leads the first African rebellion in South America's history. This may be because Buría has more slaves than other regions in
Venezuela, of which most join Miguel, and is still being contested between the Europeans and the natives, who also join his side. During this insurrection he takes over the Gold mines de San Felipe de Buría, established within the area with the consent of the Spanish Crown, to pull out the ore that was discovered in the Buria river, a task that heavily depends on slave work. • In the
Persian Gulf, the
Ottoman Empire Red Sea Fleet attacks the
Portuguese stronghold of
Hormuz, but fails to capture it. • In
Italy,
Bartolomeo Eustachi completes his
Tabulae anatomicae, presenting his discoveries on the structure of the
inner ear and
heart, although, for fear of the
Inquisition, it will not be published until
1714. • King
Edward VI of England founds 35
grammar schools by royal charter, including
Shrewsbury;
Leeds Grammar School is also established. == Births ==