1557
*Spain is effectively
bankrupt.
*June -
Mary I of England joins her husband
Philip II of Spain in his war against France.
*
August 10 -
Battle of St. Quentin - French forces under Marshal
Anne de Montmorency are decisively defeated by the Spanish under Duke
Emanuel Philibert of
Savoy. Montmorency himself is captured, but Philip II refuses to press his advantage, and withdraws to the Netherlands.
*
Ozdemir Pasha conquers the
Red Sea port of
Massawa for the
Ottoman Empire*
Equals sign invented by
Welsh mathetician Robert Recorde*
Emperor Ogimachi ascends to the throne of
Japan*
Gonville and Caius College is refounded by
John Caius.
*
Hampton School,
Hampton, London,
England founded by Robert Hammond.
*
Repton School founded by Sir John Port.
* The Portuguese settle in
Macau*
February 15 -
Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (died
1585)
*
February 24 -
Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (died
1619)
*
May 31 - Tsar
Feodor I of Russia (died
1598)
*
August 16 -
Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (died
1602)
*
August 19 -
Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (died
1608)
*
September 16 -
Jacques Mauduit, French composer (died
1627)
*
Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (died
1636)
*
Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (died
1609)
*
Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died
1612)
*
Balthasar Gérard, assassin of
William I of Orange (died
1584)
*
Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (died
1600)
*
Olaus Martini,
Archbishop of Uppsala (died
1609)
*
Thomas Morley, English composer (died
1602)
*
Oda Nobutada, Japanese general (died
1582)
See also :Category: 1557 births.*
January 2 -
Pontormo, Italian painter (born
1494)
*
April 9 -
Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (born c.
1510)
*
April 21 -
Petrus Apianus, German astronomer (born
1495)
*
June 11 - King
John III of Portugal (born
1502)
*
July 16 -
Anne of Cleves, queen of
Henry VIII of England (born
1515)
*
August 1 -
Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (born
1490)
*
September 1 -
Jacques Cartier, French explorer (born
1491)
*
September 13 -
John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (born
1514)
*
September 27 -
Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (born
1497)
*
October 25 -
William Cavendish, English courtier (born
1505)
*
November 19 -
Bona Sforza, queen of
Sigismund I of Poland (born
1494)
*
December 13 -
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (born
1499)
*
Sebastian Cabot, explorer (born
1476)
*
Thomas Crecquillon, Flemish composer (born
1490)
*
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Spanish historian (born
1478)
*
Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts, French translator
*
Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (born
1490)
*
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Spanish historian (born
1478)
*
Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (born
1522)
*
Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (born
1509)
See also :Category: 1557 deaths.
