Editing 1547 (section)

== Events ==
=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; The first Lithuanian-language book, a ''[[Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas|Catechism]]'' ({{Lang|olt|Katekizmo paprasti žodžiai}}, Simple Words of [[Catechism]]), is published in [[Königsberg]] by [[Martynas Mažvydas]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kaukienė |first1=Audronė |title=M. Mažvydas: pirmoji lietuviškoji knyga : tarptautinės mokslinės konferencijos, įvykusios 1997 m. sausio 14 d., medžiaga |date=1997 |publisher=Klaipėdos Universiteto Baltistikos centras |isbn=978-9986-505-57-0 |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zK0YAQAAIAAJ&q=%E2%80%9E1547%20m.%20sausio%208%20d. |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=lt}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey]] is sentenced to death for treason in England.<ref name=Howard>{{cite web |title=Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey {{!}} English poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Howard-Earl-of-Surrey |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sessions |first1=William A. |title=Henry Howard, the poet Earl of Surrey : a life |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-818624-3 |page=405 |url=https://archive.org/details/henryhowardpoete0000sess/page/404/mode/2up |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; Grand Prince [[Ivan IV of Russia|Ivan IV]] is crowned as [[Tsar of all Russia]] at the [[Dormition Cathedral, Moscow|Dormition Cathedral]] in [[Moscow]], thereby proclaiming the [[Tsardom of Russia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flier |first1=Michael |title=The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1: From Early Rus' to 1689 |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-05410-2 |pages=387–408 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-russia/political-ideas-and-rituals/3BB29CF9BF4718297851F02660A873BA |access-date=26 September 2023 |chapter=Political ideas and rituals}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Madariaga |first1=Isabel de |title=Ivan the Terrible |date=25 September 2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-11973-2 |pages=50–52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdFVn1v3FMUC&q=%2216+january%22&pg=PR1 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; King [[Henry VIII of England]] dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]], as King of [[Kingdom of England|England]].<ref name=Henry>{{cite web |title=Henry VIII {{!}} Biography, Wives, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jordan |first1=Wilbur Kitchener |title=Edward VI: the Young King: The Protectorship of the Duke of Somerset |date=1968 |publisher=Belknap Press |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7lxnAAAAMAAJ&q=london+%2228+january%3A |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Edward VI of England]] is [[Coronation of Edward VI|crowned]] at [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunt |first1=Alice |title=The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England |date=2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139474665 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z5eZBJ6UXiAC&pg=PA77|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] dies at the [[Château de Rambouillet]] and is succeeded by his eldest surviving son [[Henry II of France|Henry II]] (on his 28th birthday) as [[King of France]].<ref name=Francis>{{cite web |title=Francis I {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-I-king-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Henry II {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-II-king-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Catherine Parr]], widow of King [[Henry VIII of England]], secretly marries [[Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley]].
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mühlberg]]: [[Emperor Charles V]] defeats the [[Lutheran]] forces of the [[Schmalkaldic League]] and takes [[John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony|John Frederick I]].<ref name="Gairdner1924">{{cite book|author=James Gairdner|title=The English Church in the Sixteenth Century: From the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Mary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ldw3AQAAMAAJ|year=1924|publisher=Macmillan and Company Limited}}</ref>
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony|John Frederick I]] signs the [[Capitulation of Wittenberg]] in order to have his life spared by the Holy Roman Empire. 
* [[May 23]] &ndash; The Protestant [[Schmalkaldic League]] defeats the Catholic Army of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] at the [[Battle of Drakenburg]]. Of 6,000 Imperial troops, 2,500 are killed and another 2,500 are taken prisoner by the Protestants.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Hungary 1526-1686|editor=Pál Zsigmond Pach, Ágnes Várkonyi R.|publisher= Akadémiai Kiadó|location=[[Budapest]]|year=1985|isbn=963-05-0929-6}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Maurice, Elector of Saxony|Maurice, Duke of Saxony]] is formally raised to the status of the Elector.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; A peace treaty is signed between by representatives of the Holy Roman Empire and of the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[France]] after the Empire's defeat at the 1543 [[Siege of Nice]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0JsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA286 |title=History of the Ottoman Turks: From the Beginning of Their Empire to the Present Time |author=Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy |year=1854 |page=286 |access-date=2016-12-02}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The apparition of [[Mary, mother of Jesus]] is seen by several women in the [[Sicily|Sicilian]] city of [[Alcamo]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.comune.alcamo.tp.it/in-citta/storia-e-tradizioni/185-le-tradizioni-popolari.html?start=5 |title=Comune di Alcamo, "Le tradizioni popolari - La festa della Madonna dei Miracoli" |access-date=2015-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419085954/http://www.comune.alcamo.tp.it/in-citta/storia-e-tradizioni/185-le-tradizioni-popolari.html?start=5 |archive-date=2015-04-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She becomes the patron saint of the city and is celebrated as [[Our Lady of Miracles|the Madonna of Miracles]] (''la Madonna dei Miracoli'')
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse]] and [[John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony]], leaders of the Schmalkaldic League who were both captured at the battle of Muhlberg, are transported to south Germany and imprisoned for their revolt against the Empire.
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Henry II of France|King Henri of France]] orders the division of France's easternmost provinces and divides them into three zones of control, each administered by a Marshal of the Army. {{cite book |last=Harding |first=Robert |title=Anatomy of a Power Elite: the Provincial Governors in Early Modern France |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1978 |page=29}}
* [[June 29]] &ndash; A fleet of 21 French [[galley]]s, commanded by [[Leone Strozzi]], arrives at [[Fife]] in [[Scotland]] and begins the siege of [[St Andrews Castle]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Reid |first=W. Stanford |title=Trumpeter of God |location=New York |year=1974 | publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |pages=53–55 |isbn=0-684-13782-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/trumpeterofgod00wsta_0
 }};</ref>  The siege lasts for a month before [[John Knox]] and Protestant nobles surrender on July 31.<ref>{{Citation |last=Ridley |first=Jasper |author-link=Jasper Ridley (historian) |title=John Knox |location = Oxford |year= 1968 |publisher=Clarendon Press |pages=60–69 |oclc=251907110 }}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 10]] &ndash; In France, a [[duel]] takes place at  between [[Guy I de Chabot]], the future Baron of Jarnac, and François de Vivonne, Lord of [[La Châtaigneraie]], in front of the [[Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]. Vivonne, known for his fencing ability, is wounded and dies the next day.<ref>{{cite book |title=Henry II: King of France 1547-1559 |first=Frederic |last=Baumgartner |year=1988 |publisher=Duke University Press |page=60}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; After the [[James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault|Earl of Arran]], Regent of Scotland for [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], is unable to get England to voluntarily return control of [[Langholm]] to Scotland, he "reduces it by force.".<ref>Merriman, Marcus, The Rough Wooings (Tuckwell, 2000), pp. 221–229</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Henry II of France|Henri II]] as [[King of France]] at the [[Reims Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion |first=André |last=Thevet |translator-first=Edward |translator-last=Benson |publisher=Truman State University Press |year=2010 |pages=24–25}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; The [[Duchy of Brittany]] unites with the [[Kingdom of France]].
* [[September 10]]
** [[Battle of Pinkie Cleugh]]: An English army under [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset|the Duke of Somerset]], Lord Protector of England, defeats a [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scottish]] army under [[James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran]], the Regent. The English seize [[Edinburgh]].<ref name="Gairdner1924"/>
** Conspirators led by [[Ferrante Gonzaga]] murder [[Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma]] and son of the Pope, and hang his body from a window of his palace in [[Piacenza]].<ref name="pier">{{cite book |last1=Molossi |first1=Lorenzo |title=Vocabolario topografico dei Ducati di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla |date=1832 |publisher=Tip. Ducale |page=317 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_jQLoPjdCoC&dq=Ferrante+Gonzaga+Finestra+pier+luigi+%2210+settembre+1547%22&pg=PA317 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=it}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
*[[October 13]] &ndash; (New Moon of Thadinovut 909 ME) With the end of the Buddhist Lent, the Kingdom of Burma (now Myanmar) mobilizes to invade the Kingdom of Arakan (now Thailand).<ref>{{cite book |last=Wood |first=William A. R. |title=History of Siam |publisher=Chalermit Press |year=1924 |location=Thailand |isbn=1-931541-10-8}}</ref>
*The [[List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1547|English Parliament]], the first convened since the death of King Henry VIII, is opened by King Edward VI. 
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Catherine Parr]], the former Queen consort of England and widow of King [[Henry VIII]], publishes her book ''[[The Lamentation of a Sinner]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Freeman |first=Thomas S. |chapter=One Survived: The Account of the Katherine Parr in Foxe's "Books of Martyrs" |editor1-last=Betteridge |editor1-first=Thomas |editor2-last=Lipscomb |editor2-first=Suzannah |editor2-link=Suzannah Lipscomb |title=Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance |publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham, UK |year=2013 |pages=241–242}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; A fleet of 60 Ottoman Navy ships, commanded by [[Piri Reis]], arrives at the port of [[Aden]] (now in [[Yemen]])<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KrsmNygcbNgC&pg=PA2 ''The history of Aden, 1839-72'' by Zaka Hanna Kour p. 2]</ref> and [[Capture of Aden (1548)|captures the city]] in slightly more than three months, by February 26, 1548. 
* [[December 6]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Perlis River]] is fought between the Portuguese Navy and the navy of the [[Aceh Sultanate]] (now a province of [[Indonesia]]) at the [[Perlis River]] in [[Malaysia]]. With nine light warships and 230 soldiers, the Portuguese sink or capture 45 of the 60 ships of Aceh vessel leave 4,000 of their 5,380 soldiers dead or missing.<ref>Saturnino Monteiro (1992): ''Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa'' Volume III, p. 95-103.</ref>
* [[December 24]] &ndash; King Edward VI of England gives [[royal assent]] to numerous laws enacted by Parliament, including the [[Treason Act 1547|Treason Act]] and the [[Vagabonds Act 1547|Vagabonds Act]].
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[John Luttrell (soldier)|Sir John Luttrell]] of England, recently victorious over Scotland in the [[Battle of Pinkie]], raids the Scottish port of [[Burntisland]] on the [[Firth of Forth]], after his uncle [[Thomas Wyndham (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Wyndham]] brings two Royal Navy warships. Luttrell and Wyndhamburn ships and buildings on the pier and capture [[Rossend Castle]]<ref>].Gervase Phillips, ''The Anglo-Scots Wars 1513–1550'' (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 212 {{ISBN|0-85115-746-7}}</ref>

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* [[Huguenot]]s increasingly immigrate to the English county of [[Kent]], especially [[Canterbury]], from France.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thorp |first1=Malcolm Ray |title=The English Government and the Huguenot Settlement, 1680-1702 |date=1972 |publisher=University of Wisconsin--Madison |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqzVAAAAMAAJ&q=%221547%22 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Chambre Ardente]] is established in Paris for trying heretics.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ward |first1=Sir Adolphus William |title=The Reformation |date=1904 |publisher=Macmillan |page=293 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2FCgz8SJ50MC&dq=Chambre+Ardente+paris+heretics+%221547%22&pg=PA293 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* Work on construction of the [[Château de Chambord]], in the [[Loire Valley]], for [[Francis I of France]], ceases.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bonfitto |first1=Peter Louis |title=World Architecture and Society [2 volumes]: From Stonehenge to One World Trade Center [2 volumes] |date=6 December 2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-4408-6585-5 |page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XETPEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ch%C3%A2teau+de+Chambord+%221547%22&pg=PA185 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[John Dee]] visits the [[Low Countries]], to study [[navigation]] with [[Gemma Frisius]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whitby |first1=Christopher |title=John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2): 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583 |date=11 February 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-15889-6 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yq4hEAAAQBAJ&dq=john+dee+low+countries+Gemma+Frisius+%221547%22&pg=PA20 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Edward VI of England]] outlaws [[Death by boiling|execution by boiling]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=William |title=Old-time punishments |date=1890 |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. |location=London |page=199 |url=https://archive.org/details/oldtimepunishmen00andruoft/page/198/mode/2up?q=1547 |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref>