Year 1556 (MDLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 4 – In Japan, Saitō Yoshitatsu...

Francis when he was confirmed. Victoire (24 June 1556 – 17 August 1556). Died in infancy. Jeanne (24 June 1556). Stillborn Though an Italian nation state had...

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake (Postal romanization: Shensi), known in Chinese colloquially by its regnal year as the Jiajing Great Earthquake "嘉靖大地震" (Jiājìng...

Events in the year 1556 in India. 14 February – at the age of 13 Akbar becomes the emperor of Mughal India 7 October – Hemu, the Chief Minister and general...

Nasir al-Din Muhammad (6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun (Persian pronunciation: [hu.mɑː.juːn]), was the second...

the world, taking the lead from Avaris, capital of the Hyksos in Egypt. 1556 BC—Cecrops I builds or rebuilds Athens following the great flood of Deucalion...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1556. Unknown dates The first printing press in India is introduced by Jesuits...

The Great Comet of 1556 (designated C/1556 D1 in modern nomenclature) was a comet that first appeared in February 1556, and which was observed throughout...

Philip the Prudent (Spanish: Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until...

Elizabeth Hastings, later Countess of Worcester (1546 – 24 August 1621) was a noblewoman born in Scotland to Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon,...

Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy...

Events from the year 1556 in art. Sofonisba Anguissola – Self-portrait at the easel Jan Sanders van Hemessen – The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant Paolo...

instability of the empire became evident under his son, Humayun (reigned 1530–1556), who was forced into exile in Persia by rebels. The Sur Empire (1540–1555)...

Sir William Stafford, of Chebsey, in Staffordshire (c. 1508 – 5 May 1556) was an Essex landowner and the second husband of Mary Boleyn, who was the sister...

Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse...

The Kazan rebellion or Tatar Rebellion (1552–1556) was an uprising against Tsardom of Russia. It aimed to restore the Kazan Khanate, which the Russians...

the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714. They were a collection of States of the Holy Roman Empire in the...

pronunciation: [ak.baɾ]), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan...

Countess Maria of Nassau (7 February 1556, Breda – 10 October 1616, Buren) was the second daughter of William the Silent by his first wife Anna of Egmont...

and the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter-Reformation. Pole was born at Stourton Castle...

Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from...

empire at its greatest territorial extent. The abdication of Charles V in 1556 led to a division within the dynasty between his son Philip II of Spain and...

The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on 5 November 1556, between Akbar and the king of Delhi, Hemu. Hemu had conquered Delhi and Agra a few weeks earlier...

The Temryuk War or Crimean-Circassian War of 1551–1556 was a military conflict between the Crimean Khanate and the Kabardian Principality. Kabardian prince...

Government of Ireland: The Irish Privy Council and the Expansion of Tudor Rule 1556–1578. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-7165-2498-4. "The Gazetteer of British...

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mighty House of Habsburg, at first under Austrian rule (1506–1556), then under Spanish rule (1556–1714), before going back again to Austrian rule (1714–1794)...

John Bolton or Button (by 1524 – 1556 or later) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Haverfordwest in 1555...

Akadémiai Kiadó (lit. 'Academic publisher') is the publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It is one of Hungary's most important publishers...

German-Austrian branches following the abdication of Emperor Charles V in 1556. Although they ruled distinct territories, the different branches nevertheless...