* 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter ( d. 1619 )

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

* 1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer ( d. 1555 )

* 1494 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician ( d. 1555 )

* 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

* 1555 – John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester & Worcester ( burned at the stake ) ( b. ca.

* 1555 – Rowland Taylor, English pastor ( executed ) ( b. 1510 )

Georgius Agricola ( 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555 ) was a German scholar and scientist.

During the next decade, Palestrina held positions similar to his Julian Chapel appointment at other chapels and churches in Rome, notably St John Lateran, ( 1555 – 1560 – a post previously held by Lassus ) and Sta Maria Maggiore ( 1561 – 1566 ).

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

* 1555 – The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.

* 1555 – Ava Kingdom falls to Toungoo Dynasty of Burma.

* 1555 – The College of Arms was reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.

# George Albert ( 1555 – 1557 )

Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555 – 25 September 1626 ) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.

* 1501 – Pope Marcellus II ( d. 1555 )

* 1494 – Georg Agricola, German scientist ( d. 1555 )

* 1555 – François, Duke of Anjou ( d. 1584 )

* 1555 – William Hunter, Protestant martyr

After the renovation of 1555, control of the church oscillated between the Franciscans and the Orthodox, depending on which community could obtain a favorable firman from the Sublime Porte at a particular time, often through outright bribery, and violent clashes were not uncommon.

After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children.

After 1555, the Peace of Augsburg became the legitimating legal document governing the co-existence of the Lutheran and Catholic faiths in the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire, and it served to ameliorate many of the tensions between followers of the " Old Faith " ( Catholicism ) and the followers of Luther, but it had two fundamental flaws.

After an apparent conciliation between the French king and the duke, in December of 1588 King Henry III had both the Duke of Guise and his brother, Louis of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise ( 1555 – 1588 ), murdered during a meeting in the Royal Chateau at Blois.

After the abbey's dissolution in 1538, the town sank into decay and, in 1555, upon receiving a representation of its pitiable condition, Mary I granted a charter establishing a mayor, two bailiffs, twelve chief burgesses and sixteen secondary burgesses, the mayor to be clerk of the market, coroner and a Justice of the Peace.

After Mr. Rogers had been long and straitly imprisoned, and lodged in Newgate among thieves, often examined, and very uncharitably entreated, and at length unjustly and most cruelly condemned by Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester, the fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord 1555, being Monday in the morning, he was suddenly warned by the keeper of Newgate's wife, to prepare himself for the fire ; who, being then sound asleep, could scarce be awaked.

After acting as proof-reader in a Paris firm, he set up for himself, and subsequently succeeded Turnebus as king's printer in 1555.

After Cosimo I de ' Medici had occupied it in the course of the war against Siena, in 1553 and 1555 a French-Ottoman fleet attacked Piombino, but was pushed back.

After the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, the principle that the religion of the ruler dictated the religion of the ruled ( cuius regio, eius religio ) was observed throughout the Holy Roman Empire.

After the death of her first husband, Francesco Cantelmo in 1555, the artist Alessandro Allori painted a second well-known portrait of Giulia, who was now in her mid-twenties.

After 1555, the Peace of Augsburg became the legitimating legal document governing the co-existence of Lutheran and Catholic faiths in the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire, and it served to ameliorate many of the tensions between followers of the so-called Old Faith and the followers of Luther.

After he defeated Oda Nobutomo at Kiyosu Castle in April 1555 ( Kōji 1 ), he established his residence there.

After brief periods in the possession of the Crown and the Duke of Northumberland, the manor was sold in 1555 to Thomas Marrow of Berkswell.

After the victory over the French at St. Quentin, ' the sight of the battlefield gave Philip a permanent distaste for war '; he declined to pursue his advantage, withdrawing to the Spanish Netherlands to the north, where he had been the Governor since 1555.

After Northumberland's execution, Dudley Castle was forfeited to the crown, and in 1555 was restored to Lord Quondam's eldest son, Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley.

After Kazan fell to Ivan the Terrible in 1554 – 1555, representatives of western and northwestern Bashkir tribes approached the Tsar with a request to voluntarily join the Muscovy.

After the secularization of Pomeranian Cistercians in 1555 the area became a private property of the Dukes of Pomerania-Stettin, the monastery was converted into a castle and then into a summer residence of the dukes.

After the death of Jacob Sturm and with the stricter enforcement of the Lutheran confession after 1555, Sturm became involved in ongoing con-troversies.

After construction of the Matterhorn, Disney bought a third of Arrow Development and moved the company to a larger plant at 1555 Plymouth Street in the North Bayshore Area.

After the initial arrival of the Portuguese, no significant European settlements were established until French colonist and soldiers, under the Huguenot Admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon invaded the region in 1555 to establish the France Antarctique.

After the victory of the Mughal ruler Humayun over Adil Shah's brother Sikander Suri, on 23 July 1555 the Mughals regained the Punjab, Delhi and Agra after a gap of 15 years.

After 1553 he lived at Wittenberg, where he was organist, and there, in 1555, was published his collection of wedding songs.

After a Spanish occupation ( 1510 – 55 ), the city was taken by the Ottoman Turks in the Capture of Bougie in 1555.