Editing 1547

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[[File:1630 Schlacht bei Muehlberg 1547 anagoria.JPG|thumb|right|250px|[[April 24]]:[[Schmalkaldic League]] rebels defeated by [[Holy Roman Empire]] at [[Battle of Mühlberg]]]]
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Year '''1547''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDXLVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== 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>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[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>

== Births ==
[[File:Hedwig of Württemberg.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg]]]]
[[File:Francesco Terzio 006.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany]]]]
[[File:Cervantes Jáuregui.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Miguel de Cervantes]]]]
[[File:Sophia of Saxe-Lauenburg (1568).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Princess Sophia of Sweden]]]]
[[File:Claude of Valois1.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Claude of Valois]]]]
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg]], by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pfaff |first1=Carl |title=Fürstenhaus und Land Württemberg nach den Hauptmomenten, von der ältesten bis auf die neueste Zeit |date=1849 |publisher=Schweizerbart |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3QAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Hedwig+von+W%C3%BCrttemberg+%2215+januar+1547%22&pg=PA105 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Laurence Bruce]], Scottish politician (d. [[1617]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany]], Austrian Archduchess (d. [[1578]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Blätter für Kostümkunde |date=1878 |publisher=F. Lipperheide. |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUk6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Johanna+von+%C3%96sterreich+%2224+januar+1547%22&pg=RA3-PA17 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Mattei]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1603]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of November 16, 1586 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1586.htm#Mattei |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī]], Syrian Arab co-founder of the Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stewart |first1=Devin J. |title=An Episode in the 'Amili Migration to Safavid Iran: Husayn b. 'Abd al-Samad al-'Amili's Travel Account |journal=Iranian Studies |date=December 2006 |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=481–508 |doi=10.1080/00210860601005070 |s2cid=159653382 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iranian-studies/article/abs/an-episode-in-the-amili-migration-to-safavid-iran-husayn-b-abd-alsamad-alamilis-travel-account/C7252A0FAEB9A8849D648B29FEE7B815 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en |issn=0021-0862}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN ʿĀMELĪ |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/baha-al-din-ameli-shaikh-mohammad-b |website=iranicaonline.org |access-date=26 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Don John of Austria]], military leader (d. [[1578]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoffrey Parker|title=Emperor: A New Life of Charles V|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IKVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA400|date=25 June 2019|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-24102-0|pages=400}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Rudolph Goclenius]], German philosopher (d. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Goclenius, Rudolf - Deutsche Biographie |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/ppn119396181.html#adbcontent |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Bernardino Bertolotti]], Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. [[1609]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Bertolotti, Bernardino |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000002928 |website=Grove Music Online |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Lucrezia Bendidio]], noblewoman and singer in Renaissance Ferrara (d. [[1584]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Bendidio, Lucrezia |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000002639 |website=Grove Music Online |date=2001 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02639 |last1=Newcomb |first1=Anthony }}</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Magnus Pegel]], German mathematician (d. [[1619]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Gustaf Banér]], Swedish nobleman and member of the Privy Council of Sweden (d. [[1600]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Gustav Axelsson Banér |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=19038 |website=sok.riksarkivet.se |access-date=27 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=universitet |first1=Uppsala |title=Charisteria Cracoviensia Universitati Regiae |date=1979 |publisher=Nakł. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego |isbn=978-83-01-00704-1 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQdFAAAAIAAJ&q=19%20may%201547%22 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Cristofano Malvezzi]], Italian organist and composer (d. [[1599]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kirkendale |first1=Warren |title=The Court Musicians in Florence During the Principate of the Medici: With a Reconstruction of the Artistic Establishment |date=1993 |publisher=L.S. Olschki |isbn=978-88-222-4108-5 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUEfAAAAMAAJ&q=%2228%20june%201547%22 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Garzia de' Medici]], Italian noble (d. [[1562]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Landini |first1=Roberta Orsi |title=Moda alla corte dei Medici: gli abiti restaurati di Cosimo, Eleonora e don Garzia |date=1993 |publisher=Centro Di |isbn=978-88-7038-238-9 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pw_rAAAAMAAJ&q=Garzia+de%27+Medici+%225+luglio+1547%22 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg]] (d. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kobbe |first1=Peter Ludwig Christian von |title=Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung des Herzogthums Lauenburg |date=1836 |publisher=Johann Friedrich Hammerich |page=404 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCURaY8gThkC&dq=Franz+II+%2210+august+1547%22&pg=PA404 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (d. [[1596]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Soldan |first1=Friedrich |title=Geschichte des Grossherzogtums Hessen |date=1896 |publisher=E. Roth |page=125 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GeE2AAAAYAAJ&dq=Georg+I+hessen++%2210+september+1547%22&pg=PA125 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]], Dutch statesman (d. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Janssen |first1=Geert H. |title=Het stokje van Oldenbarnevelt |date=2001 |publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren |isbn=978-90-6550-455-5 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=guOpywg0GDIC&dq=Johan+van+Oldenbarnevelt+%2214+september+1547%22&pg=PA13 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Faizi]], Indo-Persian poet and scholar (d. [[1595]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin]], German philologist and poet (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reinhart |first1=Max |last2=Hardin |first2=James N. |title=German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280-1580 |date=1997 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-7876-1069-2 |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qcwUAQAAIAAJ&q=Philipp+Nicodemus+Frischlin+%2222+september+1547%22 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Miguel de Cervantes]], Spanish fiction writer (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=McCrory |first1=Donald |title=No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes |date=1 January 2006 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-45361-3 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CBHLqNlLuEMC&q=+%2229+september+1547%22&pg=PP1 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg]] (1569–1614) and Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1604–1614) (d. [[1614]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Kollectaneen-Blatt für die Geschichte Bayerns, insbesondere des ehemaligen Herzogtums Neuburg: insbesondere für die Geschichte der Stadt Neuburg |date=1863 |publisher=Grießmayer |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVNlAAAAcAAJ&dq=Philipp+Ludwig+%222+oktober+1547%22&pg=PA62 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Justus Lipsius]], Flemish humanist (d. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sellars |first1=John |title=The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition |date=12 February 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-67583-9 |page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZSPCwAAQBAJ&dq=Justus+Lipsius+%2218+october+1547%22&pg=PA160 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Princess Sophia of Sweden]], Swedish princess (d. [[1611]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sofia, prinsessa |url=https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/Sofiaprinsessa0 |website=skbl.se |access-date=27 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Hospinian]], Swiss writer (d. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Geschichte der Schweizerisch-reformierten Kirchen |date=1898 |publisher=Schmid & Francke |page=261 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2bFP9ok1H0C&dq=Rudolf+Hospinian+%227+november+1547%22&pg=PA261 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] 
** [[Martin Moller]], German poet and mystic (d. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Lebensgeschichtliche Nachrichten über die Liederdichter, welche im Neuen Gesangbuche für die Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz angeführt sind |date=1859 |publisher=Verlag des Evang. Vereins |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeNAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Martin+Moller+%2210+november+1547%22&pg=PA106 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg]], Archbishop of Cologne (d. [[1601]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Gebhard |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz69885.html |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Claude of Valois]], daughter of King [[Henry II of France]] (d. [[1575]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Corlieu |first1=Auguste |title=La mort des rois de France: depuis François 1er jusqu'à la Révolution française |date=1873 |publisher=Germer Baillière |page=63 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KKlOXM9KjQC&dq=Claude+de+France+%2212+novembre+1547%22&pg=PA63 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Taurellus]], German philosopher and theologian (d. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schmid-Schwarzenberg |first1=Franz Xaver |title=Nicolaus Taurellus |date=1860 |publisher=T. Blaesing |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PMGAAAAcAAJ&dq=Nicolaus+Taurellus+%2226+november+1547%22&pg=PA1 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Ubbo Emmius]], Dutch historian and geographer (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schwarzwälder |first1=Herbert |title=Reisen und Reisende in Nordwestdeutschland: Beschreibungen, Tagebücher und Briefe, Itinerare und Kostenrechnungen |date=1987 |publisher=A. Lax |isbn=978-3-7848-2421-5 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxtoAAAAMAAJ&q=%225%20dezember%201547%22 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Magdalena of Nassau-Dillenburg]], German noblewoman (d. [[1633]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kroon |first1=Anthonie Willem |title=Geschiedenis van het huis van Oranje-Nassau. Afl. 1-11 |date=1854 |publisher=N. de Zwaan |location=Utrecht |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6pfAAAAcAAJ&dq=Magdalena+%2215+december+1547%22&pg=PA44 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Matteo Perez d'Aleccio]], Italian painter (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Alessio, Matteo Perez de |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00002649 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Mateo Alemán]], Spanish novelist and man of letters (d. [[1609]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=McGrady |first1=Donald |title=Mateo Alemán |date=1968 |publisher=Ardent Media |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrJbeh6zD1IC&q=1547 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Peter Bales]], English calligrapher (d. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Anthony à |title=Athenæ Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. : To which are Added the Fasti, Or Annals of the Said University |date=1813 |publisher=F. C. & J. Rivington |page=656 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bI4AQAAMAAJ&dq=Peter+Bales+%221547%22&pg=PA655 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Louis Carrion]], Flemish humanist and classical scholar (d. [[1595]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mazzocco |first1=Angelo |title=A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392–1463) |date=31 May 2016 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-94-6270-048-2 |page=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFZFDAAAQBAJ&dq=Louis+Carrion+%221547%22&pg=PA229 |access-date=27 September 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
** [[Oichi]], Japanese noblewoman (d. [[1583]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beard |first1=Mary Ritter |title=The Force of Women in Japanese History |date=1953 |publisher=Public Affairs Press |isbn=978-0-8183-0167-4 |page=81 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RT1xAAAAMAAJ&q=Oichi+nagoya+%221547%22 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Thunderbolt" Radziwiłł]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1603]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=ŁABĘDŹ |first1=PIOTR |title=DZIAŁALNOŚĆ WOJSKOWA KRZYSZTOFA RADZIWIŁŁA "PIORUNA" W LATACH 1572–1579 |journal=Zapiski Historyczne |date=2011 |volume=LXXVI |issue=1 |page=23 |url=https://www.zapiskihistoryczne.pl/files/issues/17778d5d50d732d27f2004fd8e54daf5_ZH_2011_1_LabedzN.pdf |access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref>
** [[Richard Stanihurst]], English translator of Virgil (d. [[1618]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lennon |first1=Colm |last2=Stanyhurst |first2=Richard |title=Richard Stanihurst the Dubliner, 1547-1618 : a biography, with a Stanihurst text, On Ireland's past |date=1981 |publisher=Irish Academic Press |location=Blackrock |isbn=978-0-7165-0069-8 |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/richardstanihurs00lenn/page/12/mode/2up?q=1547 |access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref>
** [[Roemer Visscher]], Dutch writer (d. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brachin |first1=Pierre |title=Faits et Valeurs: Douze chapitres sur la littérature néerlandaise et ses alentours |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-011-6439-9 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVD1CAAAQBAJ&dq=Roemer+Visscher+%221547%22&pg=PA101 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
** [[Stanisław Żółkiewski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kozłowski |first1=Stanisław |title=Stanisław Żołkiewski, kanclerz koronny i hetman (1547-1620). |date=1904 |publisher=Nakł. Krakowskiego Tow. Oświaty Ludowej |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvMKAAAAIAAJ&q=1547 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=pl}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Henry VIII - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|110px|right|King [[Henry VIII of England]]]]
[[File:François Ier Louvre.jpg|thumb|110px|right|King [[Francis I of France]]]]
[[File:Diedci-Solimena-Sangaetano.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Saint Cajetan]]]]
[[File:Hernán Cortés anónimo.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Hernán Cortés]]]]
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Heß]], German theologian (b. [[1490]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Westphal |first1=Johannes |title=Das evangelische Kirchenlied: nach seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung |date=1913 |publisher=Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tB05AAAAIAAJ&dq=Johann+He%C3%9F+%225+januar+1547%22&pg=PA58 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash;[[Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg]] (b. [[1486]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Jahrbücher des Vereins für Meklenburgische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde |date=1856 |publisher=In Commission in der Stillerschen Hofbuchhandlung |page=191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmcrAQAAIAAJ&dq=Albrecht+VII+%227+januar+1547%22&pg=RA2-PA191 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Johannes Schöner]], German astronomer and cartographer (b. [[1477]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marx |first1=Leonhard Wilhelm |title=Geschichte des Reichsstadt Nürnberg |date=1861 |publisher=Stein |page=480 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYLQn1qh7JYC&dq=Johannes+Sch%C3%B6ner+%2216+januar+1547%22&pg=PA430 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Pietro Bembo]], Italian cardinal and scholar (b. [[1470]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Kidwell|title=Pietro Bembo: Lover, Linguist, Cardinal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QW53CtsRG5gC&pg=PA379|date=2 November 2004|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7192-1|pages=379}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey]], English nobleman, politician and poet, beheaded (b. c.[[1517]])<ref name=Howard />
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Anne of Bohemia and Hungary]], Queen consort of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary (b. [[1503]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kohler |first1=Alfred |title=Ferdinand I., 1503-1564: Fürst, König und Kaiser |date=2003 |publisher=C.H.Beck |isbn=978-3-406-50278-1 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1cVR2wbob0AC&dq=anne+von+bohmen+%2227+januar+1547%22&pg=PA96 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] &ndash; King [[Henry VIII of England]] (b. [[1491]])<ref name=Henry /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Keynes |first1=Milo |title=The Personality and Health of King Henry VIII (1491–1547) |journal=Journal of Medical Biography |date=August 2005 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=174–183 |doi=10.1177/096777200501300313 |pmid=16059531 |s2cid=1723207 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096777200501300313 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en |issn=0967-7720}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Vittoria Colonna]], marchioness of Pescara (b. [[1490]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tordi |first1=Domenico |title=Sulla tomba di Vittoria Colonna: Ricerche di Domenico Tordi |date=1889 |publisher=Ermanno Loescher |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tfmYY87XLUC&dq=Vittoria+Colonna+%2225+febbraio+1547%22&pg=PA26 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Philippa of Guelders]], Duchess of Lorraine (b. [[1467]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pfister |first1=Christian |title=Histoire de Nancy |date=1902 |publisher=Berger-Levrault & cie |page=635 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9MfAAAAMAAJ&dq=Philippe+de+Gueldre+%2228+fevrier+1547%22&pg=PA635 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] (b. [[1494]])<ref name=Francis /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Knecht |first1=R. J. |title=Francis I |date=18 February 1982 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-24344-5 |page=416 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0Ouk5uH0DAC&q=%2231%20march%201547%22 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia]], Danish princess (b. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kryger |first1=Karin |title=Danske Kongegrave I-III |date=6 December 2014 |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |isbn=978-87-635-0781-3 |page=249 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGVBCgAAQBAJ&dq=Dorothea+af+Danmark+%2211+april+1547%22&pg=RA1-PA249 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Daniel, Metropolitan of Moscow]] (b. c. [[1492]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Жмакин |first1=В. И. |title=Митрополит Даниил и его сочинения |date=2013 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=978-5-4241-5683-0 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m7TuAgAAQBAJ&q=%22%2022%20%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F%201547%22 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
* c. May &ndash; [[Edward Hall]], English chronicler and lawyer (b. c.[[1496]])<ref>{{cite book |title="The" Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learning, Science, and Art |date=1875 |publisher=Robert Scott Walker |location=London |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEk6F3a1Q1sC&dq=Edward+Hall+%22may+1547%22&pg=PA139 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Sebastiano del Piombo]], Italian painter (b. [[1485]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chilvers |first1=Ian |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-953294-0 |page=576 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P906UFXIoMUC&dq=Sebastiano+del+Piombo+%2221+june+1547%22&pg=PA576 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Beatus Rhenanus]],  German humanist and religious reformer (b. [[1485]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Hermann Julius |title=Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon |date=1907 |publisher=Bibliographisches Institut |page=871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEAWAAAAYAAJ&dq=Beatus+Rhenanus+%2220+juli+1547%22&pg=PA871 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Saint Cajetan]], Italian priest and saint (b. [[1480]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mousolfe |first1=A. J. M. & J. K. |title=Saint Companions for Each Day |date=1986 |publisher=St Pauls BYB |isbn=978-81-7109-092-1 |page=291 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnSDWuSTKrEC&dq=Saint+Cajetan+%227+august+1547%22&pg=PA291 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Katharina von Zimmern]], Swiss sovereign abbess (b. [[1478]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wedel |first1=Christine Christ-von |title=Die Äbtissin, der Söldnerführer und ihre Töchter: Katharina von Zimmern im politischen Spannungsfeld der Reformationszeit. Unter Mitarbeit von Irene Gysel, Jeanne Pestalozzi und Marlis Stähli |date=30 October 2019 |publisher=Theologischer Verlag Zürich |isbn=978-3-290-18255-7 |page=323 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_j62DwAAQBAJ&dq=Katharina+von+Zimmern+%2217+august+1547%22&pg=PA323 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma]] (b. [[1503]])<ref name="pier" />
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Frederick II of Legnica]], Duke of Legnica from [[1488]] (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (b. [[1480]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ciepiela |first1=Bolesław |title=Żydzi w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim i okolicy |date=2004 |publisher=Stowarzyszenie Autorów Polskich, Oddz. w Będzinie |isbn=978-83-87543-51-8 |page=112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kTItAQAAIAAJ&q=Fryderyk+II+%2217+pa%C5%BAdziernika+1547%22 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=pl}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Jacopo Sadoleto]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1477]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dalzell |first1=Alexander |last2=Fantazzi |first2=Charles |last3=Schoeck |first3=Richard J. |title=Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Torontonensis |date=1991 |publisher=Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies |isbn=978-0-86698-098-2 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i35iAAAAMAAJ&q=Jacopo+Sadoleto+%2218+october+1547%22 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Hernán Cortés]], Spanish conquistador of Mexico (b. [[1485]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/la-tumba-de-hernan-cortes.html|publisher=Mexico Desconocido|title=La tumba de Hernán Cortés, una historia fascinante|date=April 3, 2019|access-date=June 1, 2019|language=es|trans-title=The grave of Hernan Cortes, a fascinating story}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Konrad Peutinger]], German humanist and antiquarian (b. [[1465]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kießling |first1=Rolf |title=Konrad Peutinger: Ein Universalgelehrter zwischen Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven |date=8 October 2018 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-057504-0 |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQh2DwAAQBAJ&q=%20%2228%20dezember%201547%22 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jörg Breu the Younger]], German painter (b. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schweitzer |first1=Hermann |title=Geschichte der deutschen Kunst von den ersten historischen Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart |date=1905 |publisher=Otto Maier |page=357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3hFAQAAMAAJ&dq=J%C3%B6rg+Breu+der+J%C3%BCngere+%221547%22&pg=PA357 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Meera|Meera (Mirabai)]], Rajput princess (b. [[1498]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nilsson |first1=Usha |title=Mira Bai (Rajasthani Poetess) |date=1997 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-260-0411-9 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvUvAFCQWPoC&dq=Mirabai+%221547%22+dwarka&pg=PA16 |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Photisarath]], King of Laos (b. [[1501]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellis |first1=Dawn |last2=Butcher |first2=Tom |title=Laos |date=1993 |publisher=Pallas Athene |isbn=978-1-873429-99-0 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJbtAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%221547%22%20elephant |access-date=28 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

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