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Everything about 1552 totally explainedYear 1552 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1552
January - June
February 24 - The privileges of the Hanseatic League are abolished in England.
March - The Act of Uniformity 1552 imposes the Protestant prayerbook in England.
March 26 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
April - War breaks out between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun.
May - Maurice of Saxony captures Augsburg and almost seizes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at Innsbruck.
July - December
August 2
October 2 - The Khanate of Kazan falls to troops of Ivan IV of Russia.
September - In Hungary, Eger is defended against the Turks.
Undated
In the Persian Gulf, the Ottoman Empire Red Sea Fleet attacks the Portuguese stronghold of Hormuz but fails to capture it.
Spain's Bartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the New World, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi makes important discoveries on the structure of the ear and heart.
Christ's Hospital and Shrewsbury School are founded by Royal Charter of Edward VI.
Births
February 1 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (d. 1634)
February 8 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
February 19 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. 1630)
February 28 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
April 15 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
June 18 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
July 18 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
August 24 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
September 22 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)
October 6 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. 1610)
December 29 - Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé (d. 1588)
December 30 - Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
date unknown
- Hans von Aachen, German mannerist painter (d. 1615)
- Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (d. 1585)
- Jean Bertaut, French poet (d. 1611)
- Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator (b. c. 1552 or 1553; d. 1616)
- Philemon Holland, English translator (d. 1637)
- Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Spanish politician (d. 1625)
- Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese daimyo (d. 1615)
- Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (d. 1636)
- Jack Ward, English pirate (d. 1622)
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Deaths
January 10 - Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)
January 22 - Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1509)
February 26 - Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. 1500)
April 18 - John Leland, English historian (b. 1502)
June 10 - Alexander Barclay, British poet (b. 1476)
August 15 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
October 14 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
October 17 - Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
December 2 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1506)
December 20 - Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
date unknown
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