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Year 1555 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1555
January - June
July - December
September 25 - Peace of Augsburg is signed.
October 16 - Latimer and Ridley, English Protestant martyrs, burned at the stake.
Undated
Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland.
Gresham's School founded by Sir John Gresham.
Births
March 18 - François, Duke of Anjou, youngest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici (died 1584)
April 21 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619)
June 11 - Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and music theorist (died 1627)
August 1 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (died 1597)
September 28 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Marshal of France (died 1623)
December 4 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (died 1625)
date unknown
- Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian (died 1621)
- Richard Carew, Cornish translator and antiquary (died 1620)
- Thomas Cavendish, English explorer (died 1592)
- Adam Sedziwoj Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman (died 1628)
- Samuel Edels, Rabbi and Talmudist (died 1631)
- Joshua Falk, Rabbi and commentator (died 1614)
- Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (died 1606)
- Lancelot Andrewes, English clergyman and scholar (died 1626)
- François de Malherbe, French poet (died 1628)
- Jan Zbigniew Ossolinski, Polish nobleman (died 1628)
- Okudaira Sadamasa, Japanese nobleman (died 1615)
- Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian daimyo (died 1600)
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Deaths
February 4 - John Rogers, English clergyman (burned at the stake) (born c1500)
February 8 - Laurence Saunders, English clergyman (burned at the stake)
February 9
March 14 - John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (born 1485)
March 23 - Pope Julius III (born 1487)
April 12 - Joanna of Castile, queen of Philip I of Castile (born 1479)
April 30 - Pope Marcellus II (born 1501)
May 25
August 25 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (born 1473)
September 8 - Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop (born 1488)
October 9 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (born 1493)
October 16
October 25 - Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar (born 1526)
November 12 - Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (born 1493)
November 21 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (born 1490)
December - Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (born 1487)
date unknown
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