1555

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s
Years:	1552 1553 1554 – 1555 – 1556 1557 1558

1555 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1555 (MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1555

February 2 – The Diet of Augsburg begins.
February 4 – John Rogers becomes the first Protestant martyr in England under Mary I.
February 8 – Laurence Saunders is led barefoot to his execution and burned at the stake.
February 9 – Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk is the third leading Protestant martyr/Christian martyr to suffer from Queen "Bloody Mary's" (Mary I) reign. He along with the Bishop of Gloucester, John Hooper, are burned at the stake.
April 10 – Pope Marcellus II succeeds Pope Julius III as the 222nd pope.
April 17 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine–Imperial army.
May 23 – Pope Paul IV succeeds Pope Marcellus II as the 223rd pope.

July 12 – Pope Paul IV creates the first Jewish ghetto in Rome.
September 25 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed.
October 16 – Latimer and Ridley, English Protestant martyrs, are burned at the stake.

Russia breaks a 60-year-old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland.
Gresham's School is founded by Sir John Gresham
Humayun starts to rule the Mughal Empire a second time.
Bairam Khan defeats Hindu forces at Panipat.
"Negro" – the Spanish term for "black person" is coined.
William Annyas becomes the Mayor of Youghal, Ireland, the first Jew to hold such a position in Ireland or Britain.

**1555 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1555 MDLV
Ab urbe condita	2308
Armenian calendar	1004 ԹՎ ՌԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-289 – -288
Bengali calendar	962
Berber calendar	2505
Buddhist calendar	2099
Burmese calendar	917
Byzantine calendar	7063 – 7064
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十二月初九日 (4191/4251-12-9) — to — 乙卯年閏十一月十八日 (4192/4252-intercalary 11-18)
Coptic calendar	1271 – 1272
Ethiopian calendar	1547 – 1548
Hebrew calendar	5315 – 5316
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1611 – 1612
- Shaka Samvat	1477 – 1478
- Kali Yuga	4656 – 4657
Holocene calendar	11555
Iranian calendar	933 – 934
Islamic calendar	962 – 963
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 24Kōji 1 (弘治元年)
Korean calendar	3888
Thai solar calendar	2098

March 18 – François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (d. 1584)
April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
June 11 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1627)
August 1 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
September 28 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
December 4 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)
December 27 – Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1621)
date unknown
- Richard Carew, Cornish translator and antiquary (d. 1620)
- Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1628)
- Samuel Eidels, Rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1631)
- Joshua Falk, Rabbi and commentator (d. 1614)
- Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (d. 1606)
- Lancelot Andrewes, English clergyman and scholar (d. 1626)
- François de Malherbe, French poet (d. 1628)
- Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, Polish nobleman (d. 1628)
- Okudaira Sadamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)
- Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian daimyo (d. 1600)

January 14 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (b. 1478)
February 4 – John Rogers, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1500)
February 8 – Laurence Saunders, English clergyman (burned at the stake)
February 9
- John Hooper, English churchman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1497)
- Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (burned at the stake) (b. 1510)
March 14 – John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)
March 23 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
April 12 – Joanna of Castile, queen of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English historian (b. 1470)
April 30 – Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
May 25
- Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
- Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
August 25 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (b. 1473)
September 8 – Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop (b. 1488)
October 9 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
October 16
- Hugh Latimer, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (b. c. 1487)
- Nicholas Ridley, English clergyman (burned at the stake)
October 25 – Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (b. 1526)
November 12 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (b. 1493)
November 21 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
December – Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (b. 1487)