Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1555 Spaniards capture
Siena; Muscovy
Company granted royal
charter

1557 Battle of St.
Quentin

1558 French recover
Calais from English
1559 Peace of Cateau-
Cambrésis

1562 Outbreak of Wars
of Religion in France

1565 Turks besiege Malta

1566 Compromise of
Breda

1567 Duke of Alba sent
to Netherlands

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1551 Council of Trent

reconvoked; Jesuit

college (later Gregoriana)

founded at Rome

1552 Second Book of

Common Prayer;

Württemberg Confession

1553 England reconciled

with papacy; Servetus

burned at Geneva

1555 Peace of Augsburg;

Protestants persecuted in

England; Marcellus II

pope; Paul IV pope

1557 First Index

Librorum Prohibitorum

issued

1559 Protestantism

reestablished in England;

Pius IV pope; Gallican

Confession

1560 Church in Scotland

set up on presbyterian

principles

1561 Colloquy of Poissy

attempts reconciliation of

French Catholics and

Huguenots; Belgic

Confession; Naumburg

Convention

1562 Edict of St.

Germain; Council of

Trent reconvoked for final

sessions; Heidelberg

Catechism; Enclosed

community of Carmelite

nuns founded at Ávila by

future St. Teresa

1564 Death of Calvin

1566 Pius V pope;

second Helvetic

Confession; “Iconoclastic

Fury” in Netherlands

1567 Conspiracy of

Meaux

1553 Mary I queen of

England (→1558)

1554 Philip, heir to

Emperor Charles V,

marries Mary I of

England

1556 Emperor Charles V

abdicates; Ferdinand I

emperor (→1564); Philip

II king of Spain (→1598)

1558 Elizabeth I queen

of England (→1603)

1559 Francis II king of

France (→1560);

Margaret of Parma regent

of Netherlands (→1567)

1560 Charles IX king of

France (→1574) with

Catherine de’ Medici as

regent

1564 Maximilian II

(→1576)

1567 Mary, Queen of

Scots, compelled to

abdicate; James VI king

of Scotland (→1625);

William the Wise

landgrave of Hesse-

Kassel (→1592)

navigationi et viaggi

published

1551 Reinhold’s Prutenic

Tables published

1554 Lazarillo de Tormes

published

1555 Ramus’s

Dialectique published

1559 Montemayor’s La

Diana published

1562 Escorial begun

1564 Tuileries palace,

Paris, commissioned by

Catherine de’ Medici

1565 Tintoretto at work

on Scuola di San Rocco,

Venice

1560