* 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 )

* 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 )

** Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador ( d. 1547 )

** ( N. S., Saturday ) – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author ( b. 1547 )

The earliest known written account of the guinea pig dates from 1547, in a description of the animal from Santo Domingo ; because cavies are not native to Hispaniola, it was earlier believed that the animal was likely introduced there by Spanish travelers.

A map of the European Spanish Empire after the Battle of Mühlberg ( 1547 ) as depicted in the Cambridge Modern History | Cambridge Modern History Atlas ( 1912 )-Habsburg lands are shaded greenBy the mid-16th century, the Margraviate of Antwerp ( Duchy of Brabant ) had become the economic, political, and cultural center of the Netherlands after its capital had shifted from the nearby Lordship of Mechelen to the city of Brussels.

Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550, there were only some 1, 550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces.

; 1561: Joseph Nasi encourages Jewish settlement in Tiberias, having fled the Spanish Inquisition fourteen years previously in 1547

* probable – Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters ( born 1547 )

After the Inca defeat in 1533, the region was invaded by the Spanish in 1542 and since 1547 administered by catholic missions.

* Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547 – 1616 ), Spanish author

A Spanish translation was made by Luis Hurtado in 1547, preceding the actual publication of the Portuguese text in 1567.

By 1547, a large faction of Spanish soldiers arrived in the city of Chachapoyas, effectively ending the Chachapoyas ' independence.

Antagonism with the Spanish led to the Maya resistance in the Yucatan in 1546 – 1547.

It is named after Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547 – 1616 ), the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature.

Don Pedro is remembered as the viceroy who tried without success to institute the Spanish Inquisition in Naples, in 1547.

* La tierra de Jauja, a 1547 sketch ( paso ) by the Spanish playwright Lope de Rueda in which two thieves steal from a simpleton, distracting him with tales of the marvels of the land of Jauja.

Francis Xavier, the first Spanish Catholic preacher to go to Indonesia, translated Credo, Confession Generalis, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Salve Regina, and The Ten Commandments into Malay between 1546 and 1547, through which Catholicism was propagated among the native people ( Lubis 1990: 85 ).

* 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher ( b. 1547 )

* 1547 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer ( b. 1477 )

* May 5 – Charlotte of Bourbon, third wife of William I of Orange ( b. 1547 or 1548 )

* September 8 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician ( b. 1547 )

* November 20 – Krzysztof Mikołaj " the Lightning " Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman ( b. 1547 )

* probable – Chief Powhatan ( proper name Wahunsenacawh ), father of Pocahontas ( b. c. 1547 )

* September 24 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer ( b. 1547 )

** Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist ( b. 1547 )

* September 28 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian ( b. 1547 )

** Peter Bales, English calligraphist ( b. 1547 )

** Matteo Perez d ' Aleccio, Italian painter ( b. 1547 )

* January 7 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter ( b. c. 1547 )

* May 13 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman ( b. 1547 )

* February 19 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer ( b. 1547 )

* October 7 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader ( b. 1547 )

* December 9 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer ( b. 1547 )

* June 8 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher ( b. 1547 )

* July 1 – Marc ' Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer ( b. c. 1547 )

* January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer ( b. 1547 )

* November 29 – Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet ( b. 1547 )

* October 1 – Don John of Austria, military leader ( b. 1547 )

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