1552
year
Year 1552 (MDLII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s |
| Years: | 1549 1550 1551 – 1552 – 1553 1554 1555 |
Events change
Births change
- February 1 – Edward Coke, English business person (d. 1634)
- February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
- February 19 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. 1630)
- February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
- June 18 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
- July 18 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
- August 24 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
- September 22 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)
- October 6 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. 1610)
- December 29 – Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé (d. 1588)
- December 30 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
- date unknown
- Hans von Aachen, German mannerist painter (d. 1615)
- Thomas Aufield, English martyr (d. 1585)
- Jean Bertaut, French poet (d. 1611)
- Miguel de Benavides, Spanish clergyman (d. 1605)
- Richard Hakluyt, English writer, editor and translator (b. c. 1552 or 1553; d. 1616)
- Philemon Holland, English translator (d. 1637)
- Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Spanish politician (d. 1625)
- Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese daimyo (d. 1615)
- Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (d. 1636)
- Jack Ward, English pirate (d. 1622)
Deaths change
- January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist (b. 1479)
- January 22 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1509)
- February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. 1500)
- April 18 – John Leland, English historian (b. 1502)
- May 26 – Sebastian Münster, German map maker (b. 1488)
- June 10 – Alexander Barclay, British poet (b. 1476)
- July 9 – György Szondy Hungarian soldier
- August 15 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
- October 14 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
- October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
- December 2 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1506)
- December 20 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)