1552

1552 (MDLII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1552nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 552nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1550s decade. As of the start of 1552, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1552 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1552 MDLII
Ab urbe condita	2305
Armenian calendar	1001 ԹՎ ՌԱ
Assyrian calendar	6302
Balinese saka calendar	1473–1474
Bengali calendar	959
Berber calendar	2502
English Regnal year	5 Edw. 6 – 6 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2096
Burmese calendar	914
Byzantine calendar	7060–7061
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4248 or 4188     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4249 or 4189
Coptic calendar	1268–1269
Discordian calendar	2718
Ethiopian calendar	1544–1545
Hebrew calendar	5312–5313
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1608–1609
- Shaka Samvat	1473–1474
- Kali Yuga	4652–4653
Holocene calendar	11552
Igbo calendar	552–553
Iranian calendar	930–931
Islamic calendar	958–960
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 21 (天文２１年)
Javanese calendar	1470–1471
Julian calendar	1552 MDLII
Korean calendar	3885
Minguo calendar	360 before ROC 民前360年
Nanakshahi calendar	84
Thai solar calendar	2094–2095
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1678 or 1297 or 525     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1679 or 1298 or 526

Births

• 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

• 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)