Editing 1553 (section)

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Şehzade Mustafa]], oldest son of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], is executed in [[Konya]] by order of his father.<ref>[http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/neareast/ne13.html#Suleiman ''A General History of the Middle East'', Chapter 13: Ottoman Era, Suleiman the Magnificent], xenohistorian.faithweb.com; accessed January 8, 2015.</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Geneva|Geneva's]] governing council [[execution by burning|burns]] [[Michael Servetus]] at the stake as a [[heresy|heretic]].<ref name="michael">{{cite book |last1=Jedin |first1=Hubert |last2=Dolan |first2=John Patrick |title=History of the Church: Reformation and Counter Reformation |date=1980 |publisher=Burns & Oates |isbn=978-0-86012-085-8 |page=382 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJHYAAAAMAAJ&dq=geneva+Michael+Servetus+heretic+%2227+october+1553%22&pg=PA382 |access-date=5 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Lady Jane Grey]], who had claimed the title of Queen of England for nine days, is convicted of [[high treason]], along with her husband Lord Guilford Dudley, two of Dudley's brothers, and [[Thomas Cranmer]], the former [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], after trial conducted by a special commission at [[Guildhall, London|Guildhall]] in the [[City of London]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5P-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT172 |title=Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey|first=Nicola|last=Tallis|date=6 December 2016|publisher=Pegasus Books|via=Google Books|isbn=9781681772875}}</ref> Referred to by the court as "Jane Dudley, wife of Guildford", Lady Jane is found to have treacherously assumed the title and the power of the monarch of England, as evidenced by a number of documents she had signed as "Jane the Quene". All five defendants are sentenced to death. Beheading is the sentence for the men, while Lady Jane is to either be "burned alive on [[Tower Hill]] or beheaded as the Queen pleases", with the decision (for a private decapitation) to be made by Queen Mary.<ref>{{cite book|first=Eric|last=Ives|author-link=Eric Ives|title=Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery |year=2009|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Malden MA; Oxford UK|isbn=978-1-4051-9413-6 |pages=251–252, 334}}; {{Cite book | last = Bellamy| first = John| title = The Tudor Law of Treason| year =1979 | publisher = Routlegde, Kegan & Paul| place = Toronto | isbn = 0-7100-8729-2 |page=54}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] &ndash; A delegation from the English Parliament formally asks the new queen, Mary I, to choose an English husband rather than to marry Spain's [[Philip II of Spain|Prince Philip]], and suggests [[Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weikel |first=Ann |location=The Marian Council Revisited |editor1-last=Tittler |editor1-first=Robert |editor2-last=Loach |editor2-first=Jennifer |title=The Mid-Tudor Polity c.1540-1560 |publisher=Rowman and Littlefield |year=1980 |url=https://archive.org/details/midtudorpolityc10000unse/54/mode/2up |access-date=2 October 2021	|isbn=9780333245286 |page=53}}</ref> Queen Mary's choice to marry Philip, in the interests of protecting England from an invasion, will ultimately lead to [[Wyatt's rebellion]].
* [[November 17]] (13th waxing of Natdaw 915 ME) &ndash; [[Bayinnaung]], King of Burma, commissions the building of the [[Kanbawzathadi Palace]] in his capital, [[Bago, Myanmar|Pegu]] (modern-day Bago in Myanmar).<ref>{{cite book | author=Royal Historical Commission of Burma | author-link=Royal Historical Commission of Burma | title=[[Hmannan Yazawin]] | volume=2 | orig-year=1832 | location=Yangon | language=my | year=2003 | publisher=[[Ministry of Information, Myanmar]] |page=281}}</ref> The palace is completed in 1556 but is burned down in 1599.
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Italian War of 1551–1559]]: [[Cosimo I de' Medici]], [[Duke of the Florentine Republic]], signs a secret treaty with [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] to conquer the [[Republic of Siena]] to bring it back into the Empire.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VT7fAQAAQBAJ |title=Reader's Guide to Military History |date=2013|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95970-8 |editor-last=Messenger |editor-first=Charles |pages=635–636 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Second Margrave War]]: The city of [[Kulmbach]], near Brandenburg in Bavaria in Germany, is sacked and burned to the ground after its margrave, [[Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach|Albert Alcibiades]], makes an unsuccessful attempt to bring all of the Duchy of Franconia under his control.<ref>[http://www.stadt-kulmbach.de/pub/index.php?mid=19 Geschichte der Stadt Kulmbach] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129184824/http://stadt-kulmbach.de/pub/index.php?mid=19 |date=2009-01-29 }} auf der städtischen Homepage</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tucapel]]: [[Mapuche]] rebels under [[Lautaro]] defeat the Spanish [[conquistador]]s, and execute [[Pedro de Valdivia]], the first [[Royal Governor of Chile]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Mapocho |date=1964 |publisher=Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos |page=285 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-IMAAAAIAAJ&q=%2225%20de%20diciembre%20de%201553%22 |volume=2|access-date=6 October 2023 |language=es}}</ref>