1547

This article is about the year 1547.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1544 1545 1546 – 1547 – 1548 1549 1550

1547 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1547 MDXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2300
Armenian calendar	996 ԹՎ ՋՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6297
Bengali calendar	954
Berber calendar	2497
English Regnal year	38 Hen. 8 – 1 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2091
Burmese calendar	909
Byzantine calendar	7055–7056
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4243 or 4183     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4244 or 4184
Coptic calendar	1263–1264
Discordian calendar	2713
Ethiopian calendar	1539–1540
Hebrew calendar	5307–5308
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1603–1604
- Shaka Samvat	1469–1470
- Kali Yuga	4648–4649
Holocene calendar	11547
Igbo calendar	547–548
Iranian calendar	925–926
Islamic calendar	953–954
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 16 (天文１６年)
Julian calendar	1547 MDXLVII
Korean calendar	3880
Minguo calendar	365 before ROC 民前365年
Thai solar calendar	2089–2090

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, Simple Words of Catechism is published in Königsberg.
• January 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia. This replaces the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
• January 28 – Edward VI succeeds his father Henry VIII as King of England.
• February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• March 31 – Henry II succeeds his father Francis I 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.

Date unknown

• The first book in the Lithuanian language is printed (The Simple Words of Catechism by Martynas Mažvydas).
• Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent, especially Canterbury.
• 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

Miguel de Cervantes

• 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, Catholic cardinal (d. 1603)
• February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, One of the main co-founders of 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 24 – Faizi, Indo-Persian poet and scholar (d. 1595)
• September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish 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 27 – Flaminio Scala, Italian playwright and stage actor (d. 1624)
• October 29 – Princess Sophia of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1611)
• November 7 – Rudolf Hospinian, Swiss writer (d. 1626)
• November 10
  • Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1601)
  • Martin Moller, German poet and mystic (d. 1606)
• 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)
  • 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

Hernán Cortés

Francis I of France

• 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 poet (b. 1517)
• 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)
• May 22 – Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492)
• June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
• August 7 – Saint Cajetan, born in Vicenza (b. 1480)
• December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (b. 1485)
• December 28 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (b. 1510)
  • Edward Hall, English chronicler and lawyer (b. 1498)
  • Meera (Mirabai), Rajput princess (b. 1498)
  • Photisarath, King of Laos (b. 1501)