1552
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s |
| Years: | 1549 1550 1551 – 1552 – 1553 1554 1555 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1552 MDLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2305 |
| Armenian calendar | 1001 ԹՎ ՌԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6302 |
| 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 | 1474–1475 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4653–4654 |
| Holocene calendar | 11552 |
| Igbo calendar | 552–553 |
| Iranian calendar | 930–931 |
| Islamic calendar | 958–960 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 21 (天文２１年) |
| Julian calendar | 1552 MDLII |
| Korean calendar | 3885 |
| Minguo calendar | 360 before ROC 民前360年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2094–2095 |
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Year 1552 (MDLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 15 – Henry II of France and Maurice of Saxony sign the Treaty of Chambord.
- February 12 – Pedro de Valdivia founds the Chilean city of Valdivia as "Santa María la Blanca de Valdivia".
- February 24 – The privileges of the Hanseatic League are abolished in England.
- March – The Act of Uniformity imposes the Protestant Book of Common Prayer in England.
- March 26 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
- April – War breaks out between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun.
- April 16 – Pedro de Valdivia founds the city of La Imperial, Chile.
- May – Maurice of Saxony captures Augsburg and almost seizes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at Innsbruck.
July–December
- July – In Hungary, Drégely Castle is attacked by the Turks. Captain Szondy and cca 140 soldiers in the castle died after 4 days of fight against 8000 Turk raiders
- August 2
- John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and Philipp I of Hesse, taken prisoner by Charles V in 1546, are released.
- The Peace of Passau revokes the Augsburg Interim of 1548 and promises religious freedom to the Protestant princes.
- September – In Hungary, captain István Dobó commands the breaking of the Siege of Eger, led by Kara Ahmed Pasha of the Ottoman Empire.
- October 2 – The Khanate of Kazan falls to troops of Ivan IV of Russia.
Date unknown
- In the Persian Gulf, the Ottoman Empire Red Sea Fleet attacks the Portuguese stronghold of Hormuz but fails to capture it.[1]
- Spain's Bartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the New World, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.[2]
- In Italy, Bartolomeo Eustachi completes his Tabulae anatomicae, presenting his discoveries on the structure of the inner ear and heart,[3] although, for fear of the Inquisition, it will not be published until 1714.
- King Edward VI of England founds 35 grammar schools by royal charter,[4] including Shrewsbury; Leeds Grammar School is also established.
- The Debatable Lands on the border of England and Scotland are divided between the two kingdoms by a commission in an unsuccessful attempt to halt lawlessness there. This gives both Scotland and England their modern borders.
Births
- January 14 – Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)
- February 1 – Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (d. 1634)
- February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
- February 19 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. 1630)
- February 20 – Sengoku Hidehisa, Daimyo (d. 1614)
- February 25 – Magdalene of Lippe, Countess of Lippe by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1587)
- February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
- March 1 – Anna of Cleves, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Countess Palatine of Neuburg (d. 1632)
- March 18 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610)
- March 20 – Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (d. 1592)
- April 20 – Frederick IV of Liegnitz, German noble (d. 1596)
- May 8 – Petrus Ryff, Swiss scientist (d. 1629)
- May 12 – Edmund Bowyer, English politician (d. 1627)
- June 2 – Raja Wodeyar I, King of Mysore (d. 1617)
- June 17 – John George of Ohlau, Duke of Oława and Wołów (1586-1592) (d. 1592)
- June 18 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
- June 29 – Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon, English Baroness (d. 1618)
- July 18 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
- July 22
- Anthony Browne (d. 1592)
- Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (d. 1607)
- August 14 – Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer (d. 1623)
- August 21 – Muhammad Qadiri, Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. 1654)
- August 24 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
- September 12 – André Schott, Jesuit priest, academic, linguist, translator, editor (d. 1629)
- September 17 – Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
- September 20 – Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau, German botanist (d. 1599)
- September 21 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (d. 1638)
- September 22 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)
- October 6 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. 1610)
- October 11 – Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1553)
- October 18
- Elisabeth of Saxony, Countess Palatine of Simmern (d. 1590)
- Francis Cherry, English diplomat (d. 1605)
- October 23 – Odet de Turnèbe, French dramatist (d. 1581)
- October 28 – Simón de Rojas, Spanish saint (d. 1624)
- November 20 – Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, English politician and Earl (d. 1616)
- December 26 – Seonjo of Joseon, King of Joseon (d. 1608)
- December 27 – William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, English politician and Earl (d. 1626)
- 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 Catholic martyr (d. 1585)
- Jean Bertaut, French poet (d. 1611)
- Miguel de Benavides, Spanish clergyman and sinologist (d. 1605)
- Richard Hakluyt, English author, 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)
- Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (d. 1589)
- 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 and controversialist (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 cartographer and cosmographer (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)
