Editing 1559 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Peace of Cateau Cambrésis]]: After two days of negotiations, France makes peace with England and Spain, ending the [[Italian War of 1551–59]]. France gives up most of its gains in Italy (including [[Savoy]]), retaining only [[Saluzzo]], but keeps the three Lorraine bishoprics of [[Metz]], [[Toul]], and [[Verdun]], and the formerly English town of [[Calais]].
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[John Knox]] returns from exile to Scotland, to become the leader of the beginning [[Scottish Reformation]].
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth of England]] gives [[royal assent]] to the [[Act of Supremacy 1558]] (requiring any person taking public or church office in England to swear allegiance to the English monarch as Supreme Governor of the [[Church of England]]) and to the [[Act of Uniformity 1558]] (requiring all persons in England to attend Anglican services on penalty of a fine for noncompliance). 
* [[May 13]] &ndash; At [[Basel]], the body of Dutch Anabaptist leader [[David Joris]] is exhumed and burned, following his posthumous conviction of heresy.
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Scottish Reformation]]: A Protestant mob, incited by the preaching of John Knox, sacks [[St Andrews Cathedral]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; King [[Philip II of Spain]] and the 14-year-old [[Elisabeth of Valois]] are married in Spain, having married by proxy in January.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jean d' Aubusson de la Maison Neuve|author2=Victor Ernest Graham|author3=Victor E. Graham|title=Recueil Et Discours Du Voyage Du Roy Charles IX|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8pnAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5406-7|page=457|language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Tournament between Henry II and Lorges.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The fatal tournament between King Henry and [[Gabriel, comte de Montgomery|Lord Montgomery]]]]
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Henry II of France|King Henry of France]] participates in a [[jousting]] tournament at the [[Place des Vosges]] in Paris, where French nobles are celebrating the marriage of Princess Elisabeth to King Philip of Spain. During competition against [[Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery]], commander of King Henry's bodyguards, the [[Scottish Guards (France)|Garde Écossaise]], King Henry is struck in the eye by a splinter from Montgomery's lance and fatally injured.<ref>"[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25421951/"The death of Henry II, King of France (1519–1559): From myth to medical and historical fact], by Marc Zanello, et al., in ''Acta Neurochir'' (January 2015) pp.145-149</ref> Henry survives for 10 days without treatment until dying from [[sepsis]].