* Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, Voivode of Moldavia ( 1552 – 1561 and 1564 – 1568 )

* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

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 ).

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

* 1552 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman ( d. 1630 )

* 1552 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker ( d. 1632 )

* 1615 – Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord ( b. 1552 )

# Barbara ( 24 September 1495, Ansbach – 23 September 1552 ), married in Plassenburg on 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg.

George Frederick rebuilt the palace and fortress Plassenburg, which was destroyed after the second margravian war ( 1552 – 1554 ), as one of the most impressive residences of the renaissance in the German empire.

Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying ( 1494 – 1552 AD )

* 1632 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician ( b. 1552 )

* 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet ( d. 1638 )

* 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet ( b. 1552 )

* 1552 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1612 )

* 1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter ( b. 1552 )

* 1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.

* 1504 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru ( d. 1552 )

Important naval victories of the Ottoman Empire in this period include the Battle of Preveza ( 1538 ); Battle of Ponza ( 1552 ); Battle of Djerba ( 1560 ); conquest of Algiers ( in 1516 and 1529 ) and Tunis ( in 1534 and 1574 ) from Spain ; conquest of Rhodes ( 1522 ) and Tripoli ( 1551 ) from the Knights of St. John ; capture of Nice ( 1543 ) from the Holy Roman Empire ; capture of Corsica ( 1553 ) from the Republic of Genoa ; capture of the Balearic Islands ( 1558 ) from Spain ; capture of Aden ( 1548 ), Muscat ( 1552 ) and Aceh ( 1565 – 67 ) from Portugal during the Indian Ocean expeditions ; among others.

* 1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.

Simon Forman ( 31 December 1552 – 5 or 12 September 1611 ) was an Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and herbalist active in London during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England.

Of more general interest are the writings of two Frenchmen who were driven by religious persecutions to end their lives at Geneva — the memoirs and poems of Theodore Agrippa d ' Aubigné ( 1552 – 1630 ), and the historical writings and poems of Simon Goulart ( 1543 – 1628 ).

Forman was born in Quidhampton, Fugglestone St Peter, near Salisbury, Wiltshire on 31 December 1552.

Following the publication of the 1552 Prayer Book, a revised English Primer was published in 1553 ; adapting the Offices and Morning and Evening Prayer, and other prayers, for lay domestic piety.

In 1557, the Scots Protestant lords had adopted the English Prayer Book of 1552, for reformed worship in Scotland.

* 1502 – John Leland, English poet andantiquarian ( d. 1552 )

* November 23 – Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 )

* September 3 – Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist ( b. 1552 )

* July 6 – Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr ( b. 1552 )

* January 13 – Edmund Spenser, English poet ( b. 1552 )

** Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 or 1553 ; d. 1616 )

* September 13 – John Leland, English antiquarian ( d. 1552 )

From 1550 or 1551, he travelled in continental Europe, returning to England by 1552 to enrol at Gray's Inn, one of the qualifying bodies for English lawyers.

* Edward Coke ( 1552 – 1634 ), English entrepreneur and jurist

In September 1552, the English adventurer Thomas Stukley, who had been for some time in the French service, betrayed to the authorities in London some French plans for the capture of Calais, to be followed by a descent upon England.

* William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire ( 1552 – 1626 ) was an English courtier

1503 – 18 April 1552 ), was an English poet and antiquary.

Sir Edward Coke SL PC (, formerly ; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634 ) was an English barrister, judge and politician considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

Dr Alexander Barclay ( c. 1476 – 10 June 1552 ) was an English / Scottish poet.

In late 1552 he undertook to bring about a European peace by English mediation.

* January 13-Edmund Spenser, English poet ( born 1552 )

The word first appears in English around 1552.

* Sir Edward Stafford ( diplomat ) ( 1552 – 1604 ), English ambassador to Paris ; MP for Winchester, Mitchell, Heytesbury and Queenborough

The Earl of Warwick leading the English government since early 1550, Somerset began to plot his removal and was executed for felony in January 1552.

The Blessed Thomas Aufield ( 1552 – 6 July 1585 ), also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr.

Philemon Holland ( 1552 – 9 February 1637 ) was an English translator.

* John Baker ( English statesman ) ( 1488 – 1558 ), Speaker of the House of Commons, 1545 – 1552