1555
year
1555 (MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
January 22 – The Kingdom of Ava in Upper Burma falls.
February 2 – The Diet of Augsburg begins.
February 4 – John Rogers is burned at the stake at Smithfield, London, becoming the first of the 284 Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation to be killed during the five and one-half year reign of Queen Mary I of England. His death is followed within the week by that of Laurence Saunders on February 8 in Coventry, and Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and John Hooper, deposed Bishop of Gloucester on February 9.
February 26 – The Muscovy Company is chartered in England to trade with the Tsardom of Russia and Richard Chancellor negotiates with the Tsar.
March 25 – Valencia, Venezuela, is founded by Captain Alonso Díaz Moreno.
April–June
April 9 – Marcello Cervini degli Spannocchi is unanimously chosen as the successor to Pope Julius III, who died on March 23, and takes the name of Pope Marcellus II as the 222nd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He will reign for 22 days.
April 17 – After 18 months of siege, the Republic of Siena surrenders to the Florentine–Imperial army.
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