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| Years: 1555 1556 1557 - 1558 - 1559 1560 1561 | |
| Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England
- July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
- April 24 - Mary I of Scotland marries Francis II of France
- November 17 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth.
- Tobacco comes to France
Births
- October 12 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
- Giovanni Bassano, Italian composer and cornettist
- Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (d. 1617)
- Robert Greene, English writer (d. 1592)
- Thomas Kyd, English playwright (d. 1594)
- Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (d. 1586)
Deaths
- April 18 - Aleksandra Lisowska, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
- September 21 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
- October 21 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, humanist scholar (b. 1484)
- November 17 - Queen Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500)
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