Editing 1557 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; The [[Colloquy of Worms (1557)|Colloquy of Worms]] is adjourned with no resolution on reconciling the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, after the parties are unable to agree on the concepts of [[original sin]] and [[justification (theology)|theological justification]].<ref name=Wormer/>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Mohammed al-Shaykh]], Sultan of Morocco since 1549, is assassinated by Ottoman soldiers who had infiltrated the Moroccan army. The assassination comes on orders of the Ottoman sultan after Mohammed makes plans for an alliance with Spain against the Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weiner |first1=Jerome Bruce |title=Fitna, Corsairs, and Diplomacy: Morocco and the Maritime States of Western Europe, 1603-1672 |date=1976 |publisher=Columbia University |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5apWAAAAYAAJ&q=Mohammed+al-Shaykh+assassinated+%2223+october+1557%22 |access-date=16 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Mohammed is succeeded by his son, [[Abdallah al-Ghalib]].
* [[November 17]] (27th day of the 10th month of [[Kōji (Muromachi period)|Kōji 3]]) &ndash; Prince Michihito of Japan becomes the [[Emperor Ōgimachi]] almost two months after the September 27 death of his father, the [[Emperor Go-Nara]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; In [[Bucharest]], [[Mircea the Shepherd]] becomes the [[List of princes of Wallachia|
Prince of Wallachia]] for the third time, succeeding [[Pătrașcu the Good]], who has died suddenly.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tiberiu Ciobanu|title=Voievozi și domnitori români|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-OgAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Excelsior Art|isbn=978-973-592-162-0|page=118}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Italian War of 1551–1559]]: [[Henry II of France|King Henri II of France]], through his ambassador [[Jean Cavenac de la Vigne]] sends a letter to [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]] for the dispatch of 150 Ottoman Navy ships to protect the French coast.<ref>Kenneth M. Setton,  [https://books.google.com/books?id=SrUNi2m_qZAC&pg=PA698 ''The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571)''] (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1984), p. 698</ref>