* Stephan Agricola ( 1491 – 1547 ): Lutheran reformer

* 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg.

** Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

** Henry II ( 1547 – 1559 )

* Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

* Henry II ( 1547 – 1559 )

During the pontificate of Pope Paul III the Council fathers met for the first through eighth sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 7 ), and for the ninth through eleventh sessions in Bologna ( 1547 ).

The most comprehensive history is still Hubert Jedin's The History of the Council of Trent ( Geschichte des Konzils von Trient ) with about 2500 pages in four volumes: The History of the Council of Trent, The fight for a Council ( Vol I, 1951 ); The History of the Council of Trent The first Sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 1547 ) ( Vol II, 1957 ); The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547 – 1548 and Trent 1551 – 1552 ( Vol III, 1970, 1998 ); The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion ( Vol IV, 1976 ).

* Hernán Cortés ( or Hernando Cortés ) ( 1485 – 1547 ), Spanish conquistador

* 1547 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer ( d. 1625 )

* 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror ( b. 1485 )

* Palliser, D. M. The Age of Elizabeth: England Under the Later Tudors, 1547 – 1603 ( 1983 ) survey of social and economic history

* 1620 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer ( b. 1547 )

* 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

** Francis I, 1515 – 1547

** Henry II, 1547 – 1559

The development of the Tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign ( 1547 – 1584 ) of Ivan IV (" Ivan the Terrible ").

* 1547 – Henry VIII dies.

* 1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.

* 1547 – Garzia de ' Medici, Tuscan prince ( d. 1562 )

Alexandrines also formed the first line of the couplet form Poulter's Measure ( the second line being a fourteener ) as exemplified in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's poem, Complaint of the Absence of her lover, being upon the sea ( 1547 ).

Henry VIII died in 1547 ; Elizabeth's half-brother, Edward VI became king at age nine.

His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.

In 1547, after the death of Henry VIII, forces under the English regent Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset were victorious at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the climax of the Rough Wooing, and followed up by the occupation of Haddington.

Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547.

In 1547, Henry died and Edward succeeded as Edward VI.

In 1551, at the request of the Emperor Charles V, he consented to the reopening of the council of Trent and entered into a league against the duke of Parma and Henry II of France ( 1547 – 59 ), but soon afterwards made terms with his enemies and suspended the meetings of the council ( 1553 ).

Another possible association is with the " three-grayned staff " listed as being in the armoury of Henry VIII in 1547 ( though the same list also features 84 rawcons, suggesting the weapons were not identical in 16th century English eyes ).

After Henry led troops during the Siege of Boulogne in 1544 – an attempt to take French territory for England – he died on 28 January 1547.

Although Henry had specified a group of men to act as regents during Edward's minority, Edward Seymour, Edward's uncle, quickly seized complete control, and created himself Duke of Somerset on 15 February 1547.

* February 21 – Claude of Valois, daughter of Henry II of France ( b. 1547 )

** Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat ( d. 1547 )

* June 28: King Henry VIII of England ( d. 1547 )

Catherine de ' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de ' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ), daughter of Lorenzo II de ' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, was a Franco / Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.

Under the gallicised version of her name, Catherine de Médicis, she was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559.

" Henry VIII ( 1491 – 1547 )".

King Henry died in January 1547 and was succeeded first by his son Edward VI, and then by both his daughters in turn.

* Lady Eleanor Brandon ( 1519 – 27 September 1547 ), who married Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland.

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, KG, ( c. 1500 – 22 January 1552 ) was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI ( 1547 – 1553 ), in the period between the death of Henry VIII in 1547 and his own indictment in 1549.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG ( 1516 / 1517 – 19 January 1547 ), was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry.

* Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk 1524 – 1547

Surrey's marriage to his second wife, Elizabeth, which had apparently been mutually affectionate at first, deteriorated in 1527 when he took a mistress, Elizabeth Holland ( d. 1547 / 8 ), whom he installed in the Howard household.

He was survived by two of the three children of his second marriage: his younger son, Thomas created Viscount Howard of Bindon in 1559, and his daughter Mary, his eldest son and heir, Henry, having been executed in 1547.

During this period Foxe also found a patron in Mary Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond, who hired him as tutor to the orphan children of her brother, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a Catholic who had been executed for treason in January 1547.

On 12 September 1640 William Howard was created Baron Stafford, with remainder, in default of heirs male of the body, to the heirs of his body by his wife Mary and with the precedence of the 1547 barony.

Lord Howard's career received a check in 1547 with the downfall of his half-nephew Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

* Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey ( 1473 – 1554 ) Attainted 1547 ; restored 1553.

** Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ( by courtesy ) ( 1517 – 1547 ), the poet ; attainted and executed.

* Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ( 1517 – 1547 ), English aristocrat and poet