Year 1547 (MDXLVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
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April 24 :Schmalkaldic League rebels defeated by Holy Roman Empire at Battle of Mühlberg
April– June
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 and takes John Frederick I .[11]
May 19 – John Frederick I signs the Capitulation of Wittenberg in order to have his life spared by the Holy Roman Empire.
May 23 – The Protestant Schmalkaldic League defeats the Catholic Army of the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Drakenburg . Of 6,000 Imperial troops, 2,500 are killed and another 2,500 are taken prisoner by the Protestants.[12]
June 4 – Maurice, Duke of Saxony is formally raised to the status of the Elector.
June 13 – A peace treaty is signed between by representatives of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire and France after the Empire's defeat at the 1543 Siege of Nice .[13]
June 21 – The apparition of Mary, mother of Jesus is seen by several women in the Sicilian city of Alcamo .[14] She becomes the patron saint of the city and is celebrated as the Madonna of Miracles (la Madonna dei Miracoli )
June 23 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse and John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony , leaders of the Schmalkaldic League who were both captured at the battle of Muhlberg, are transported to south Germany and imprisoned for their revolt against the Empire.
June 26 – King Henri of France orders the division of France's easternmost provinces and divides them into three zones of control, each administered by a Marshal of the Army. Harding, Robert (1978). Anatomy of a Power Elite: the Provincial Governors in Early Modern France . Yale University Press. p. 29.
June 29 – A fleet of 21 French galleys , commanded by Leone Strozzi , arrives at Fife in Scotland and begins the siege of St Andrews Castle .[15] The siege lasts for a month before John Knox and Protestant nobles surrender on July 31.[16]
July– September
July 10 – In France, a duel takes place at between Guy I de Chabot , the future Baron of Jarnac, and François de Vivonne, Lord of La Châtaigneraie , in front of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye . Vivonne, known for his fencing ability, is wounded and dies the next day.[17]
July 17 – After the Earl of Arran , Regent of Scotland for Mary, Queen of Scots , is unable to get England to voluntarily return control of Langholm to Scotland, he "reduces it by force.".[18]
July 25 – The coronation of Henri II as King of France at the Reims Cathedral .[19]
August 13 – The Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France .
September 10
October– December
October 13 – (New Moon of Thadinovut 909 ME) With the end of the Buddhist Lent, the Kingdom of Burma (now Myanmar) mobilizes to invade the Kingdom of Arakan (now Thailand).[21]
The English Parliament , the first convened since the death of King Henry VIII, is opened by King Edward VI.
November 5 – Catherine Parr , the former Queen consort of England and widow of King Henry VIII , publishes her book The Lamentation of a Sinner .[22]
November 15 – A fleet of 60 Ottoman Navy ships, commanded by Piri Reis , arrives at the port of Aden (now in Yemen )[23] and captures the city in slightly more than three months, by February 26, 1548.
December 6 – The Battle of Perlis River is fought between the Portuguese Navy and the navy of the Aceh Sultanate (now a province of Indonesia ) at the Perlis River in Malaysia . With nine light warships and 230 soldiers, the Portuguese sink or capture 45 of the 60 ships of Aceh vessel leave 4,000 of their 5,380 soldiers dead or missing.[24]
December 24 – King Edward VI of England gives royal assent to numerous laws enacted by Parliament, including the Treason Act and the Vagabonds Act .
December 28 – Sir John Luttrell of England, recently victorious over Scotland in the Battle of Pinkie , raids the Scottish port of Burntisland on the Firth of Forth , after his uncle Thomas Wyndham brings two Royal Navy warships. Luttrell and Wyndhamburn ships and buildings on the pier and capture Rossend Castle [25]
Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg
Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Miguel de Cervantes
Princess Sophia of Sweden
Claude of Valois
January 15 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg , by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1590 )[31]
January 20 – Laurence Bruce , Scottish politician (d. 1617 )
January 24 – Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany , Austrian Archduchess (d. 1578 )[32]
February 8 – Girolamo Mattei , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1603 )[33]
February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī , Syrian Arab co-founder of the Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621 )[34] [35]
February 24 – Don John of Austria , military leader (d. 1578 )[36]
March 1 – Rudolph Goclenius , German philosopher (d. 1628 )[37]
March 26 – Bernardino Bertolotti , Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. 1609 )[38]
April 8 – Lucrezia Bendidio , noblewoman and singer in Renaissance Ferrara (d. 1584 )[39]
May 15 – Magnus Pegel , German mathematician (d. 1619 )
May 19 – Gustaf Banér , Swedish nobleman and member of the Privy Council of Sweden (d. 1600 )[40] [41]
June 28 – Cristofano Malvezzi , Italian organist and composer (d. 1599 )[42]
July 5 – Garzia de' Medici , Italian noble (d. 1562 )[43]
August 10 – Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1619 )[44]
September 10 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596 )[45]
September 14 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch statesman (d. 1619 )[46]
September 20 – Faizi , Indo-Persian poet and scholar (d. 1595 )
September 22 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin , German philologist and poet (d. 1590 )[47]
September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish fiction writer (d. 1616 )[48]
October 2 – Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1569–1614) and Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1604–1614) (d. 1614 )[49]
October 18 – Justus Lipsius , Flemish humanist (d. 1606 )[50]
October 29 – Princess Sophia of Sweden , Swedish princess (d. 1611 )[51]
November 7 – Rudolf Hospinian , Swiss writer (d. 1626 )[52]
November 10
November 12 – Claude of Valois , daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575 )[55]
November 26 – Nicolaus Taurellus , German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606 )[56]
December 5 – Ubbo Emmius , Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625 )[57]
December 15 – Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg , German noblewoman (d. 1633 )[58]
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King Henry VIII of England
King Francis I of France
Saint Cajetan
Hernán Cortés
January 5 – Johann Heß , German theologian (b. 1490 )[68]
January 7 – Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1486 )[69]
January 16 – Johannes Schöner , German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477 )[70]
January 18 – Pietro Bembo , Italian cardinal and scholar (b. 1470 )[71]
January 19 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey , English nobleman, politician and poet, beheaded (b. c.1517 )[2]
January 27 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary , Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1503 )[72]
January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491 )[6] [73]
February 25 – Vittoria Colonna , marchioness of Pescara (b. 1490 )[74]
February 28 – Philippa of Guelders , Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1467 )[75]
March 31 – King Francis I of France (b. 1494 )[9] [76]
April 11 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia , Danish princess (b. 1504 )[77]
May 22 – Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. c. 1492 )[78]
c. May – Edward Hall , English chronicler and lawyer (b. c.1496 )[79]
June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo , Italian painter (b. 1485 )[80]
July 20 – Beatus Rhenanus , German humanist and religious reformer (b. 1485 )[81]
August 7 – Saint Cajetan , Italian priest and saint (b. 1480 )[82]
August 17 – Katharina von Zimmern , Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478 )[83]
September 10 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1503 )[20]
September 17 – Frederick II of Legnica , Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (b. 1480 )[84]
October 18 – Jacopo Sadoleto , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1477 )[85]
December 2 – Hernán Cortés , Spanish conquistador of Mexico (b. 1485 )[86]
December 28 – Konrad Peutinger , German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465 )[87]
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