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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 22]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Ava]] in [[Upper Burma]] falls.
* [[February 2]] &ndash; The [[Diet of Augsburg]] begins.
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)|John Rogers]] is [[death by burning|burned at the stake]] at [[Smithfield, London]], becoming the first of the 284 [[List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation|Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation]] to be killed during the five and one-half year reign of Queen [[Mary I of England]].<ref name=CBH>{{cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan |last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica |year=1992 |title=The Chronology of British History |publisher=Century Ltd |location=London |pages=150–153 |isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> His death is followed within the week by that of [[Laurence Saunders]] on February 8 in [[Coventry]], and [[Rowland Taylor]], [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Hadleigh, Suffolk]], and [[John Hooper (bishop)|John Hooper]], deposed [[Bishop of Gloucester]] on February 9.
* [[February 26]] &ndash; The [[Muscovy Company]] is chartered in England to trade with the [[Tsardom of Russia]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8}}</ref><ref>Goldsmid, E. (ed.) (1886). ''The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, collected by [[Richard Hakluyt]], Preacher'', Vol. III: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part II: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid. [https://archive.org/stream/cihm_33119#page/n109/mode/2up pp. 101-112].</ref> and [[Richard Chancellor]] negotiates with the Tsar.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Valencia, Venezuela]], is founded by Captain Alonso Díaz Moreno.