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

Contents

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, replacing 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

  • 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

  • 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, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
  • August 17 – Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)
  • 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)

    • References

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