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

Events of 1547

January - June

January 16 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar 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.
April - Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
March 31 - Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.
April 24 - Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the forces of the Schmalkaldic League.

July - December

September 10 - Battle of Pinkie: 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.

December 2 - Hernán Cortés dies.

Undated

The first book in the Lithuanian language is printed (author, Martynas Mazvydas).

Huguenots increasingly immigrate to Kent, especially Canterbury.

Chambre Ardente is established in Paris.

Births

February 24 - Don John of Austria, military leader (d. 1578)

March 1 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)

June 28 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)

September 14 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (d. 1619)

September 22 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)

September 29 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (d. 1616)

October 18 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)

November 12 - Claude of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France (d. 1575)

December 5 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)

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 Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
Richard Stanyhurst, English translator of Virgil (d. 1618)
Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1606)
Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (d. 1620)
Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish nobleman (d. 1620)

probable

Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (d. 1592)

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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)

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, born in Vicenza (b. 1480)

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)
Mirabai, Rajput princess (b. 1498)

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