* 1503 – Christian III of Denmark ( d. 1559 )

* Alfonso II d ' Este ( 1533 – 1597 ), duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597

* 1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

** Henry II ( 1547 – 1559 )

** Francis II ( 1559 – 1560 )

* Henry II ( 1547 – 1559 )

* Francis II ( 1559 – 1560 )

Under Pope Julius III, the Council met in Trent ( 1551 – 52 ) for the twelfth through sixteenth sessions, and under Pope Pius IV, the seventeenth through twenty-fifth sessions took place in Trent ( 1559 – 63 ).

The council was reconvened by Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 65 ) for the last time, meeting from 18 January 1562, and continued until its final adjournment on 4 December 1563.

During the protracted Ethiopian-Adal War ( 1529 – 1559 ), Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian Emperors and embarked on a conquest referred to as the Futuh Al-Habash (" Conquest of Abyssinia "), which brought three-quarters of Christian Abyssinia under the power of the Muslim Adal Sultanate.

This legend is found in two sources, Hans Svaning's History of King Hans from 1558 – 1559 and Johan Rantzau's History about the Last Dithmarschen War, from 1569.

In February 1577, it was rumoured that Oxford's sister Mary would marry Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ( 1559 – 1580 ), but by 2 July, she was linked with Peregrine Bertie, later Lord Willoughby d ' Eresby.

* 1559 – Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar ( d. 1614 )

First ( 1559 ) he married Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin ( 29 August 1540 – 8 March 1578 ).

* Rice, Eugene F. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460 – 1559 ( 2nd ed.

The eventual Reformation of the Scottish Church followed a brief civil war in 1559 – 60, in which English intervention on the Protestant side was decisive.

** Henry II, 1547 – 1559

** Francis II, 1559 – 1560

France engaged in the long Italian Wars ( 1494 – 1559 ), which marked the beginning of early modern France.

Image: Kano White-robed Kannon, Bodhisattva of Compassion. jpg | A White-Robed Kannon, Bodhisattva of Compassion, by Kanō Motonobu ( 1476 – 1559 ), Japanese

Diana and Actaeon ( Titian ) | Diana and Actaeon, Titian, 1556 – 1559, a classic history painting, showing a dramatic moment in a mythological story, with elements of figure painting, landscape painting and still-life.

* 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

* Diego Carranza ( b. 1559 ), Mexican Dominican missionary

Ximenes obtained the degree of Bachelor ( in the Dominican sense ) in his province, and on 11 April, 1559, was chosen socius to Bartholomew Carranza, Archbishop of Toledo, and by him sent to Segobia with special letters to the vicar and definitors of the provincial chapter gathered there, to dissuade the members of the chapter from re-electing Melchior Cano as provincial.

* Albert VII ( 1559 – 1621 ), Archduke of Austria and governor ( 1596 – 1598 ) and Co-sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands ( modern-day Belgium and Luxembourg ) with Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, held position ( as Co-sovereign ) 1598 – 1621

Spanish rule dates back to 1559, when several territories belonging to the Saadi dynasty were given to Spain in exchange for help in defending it against Ottoman armies.

The first permanent settlement in French Louisiana was founded at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and referred to as Old Biloxi, in 1699 under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, with Louisiana separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola ( founded 1559 and again in 1698 ).

In Siena freedom of speech was for the moment possible, owing to the War over Siena ( 1552 – 1559 ) and shaking off of the Spanish yoke.

Johann Tserclaes was born in February 1559 in Castle Tilly, Walloon Brabant, now in Belgium, then the Spanish Netherlands.

In April 1559 Granvelle was one of the Spanish commissioners who arranged the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis, and on Philip's withdrawal from the Netherlands in August of the same year he was appointed prime minister to the regent, Margaret of Parma.

Hey The Spanish theorist Juan Bermudo declared him “ the light of Spain in music ”, while in 1559, a Mexican choir – Spanish polyphony in particular was quick to reach the New World – sang his music at a service commemorating the death of Charles V the previous year.

The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, signed in 1559, permanently recognized Spanish claims in Italy.

In 1559 he commanded the stately fleet which conveyed Philip II from the Netherlands to Spain, and he remained at the Spanish court until 1563.

Among the first European settlements in North America were Spanish settlements in what would later become the state of Florida ; the earliest was Tristán de Luna y Arellano's failed colony in what is now Pensacola in 1559.

However the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis ( 1559 ) saw almost all of Italy fall under the direct or indirect control of the Spanish.

The Italian Wars ( 1494 – 1559 ) resulted in an ultimate Spanish victory and hegemony in northern Italy by expelling the French.

Gil González de Ávila ( 1559 – 1658 ), Spanish biographer and antiquary.

Titian's Diana and Callisto ( 1559 ) portrays the moment when Callisto's pregnancy is discovered ( National Gallery of Scotland ).

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

* 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah called for a " massive popular gathering " on Tuesday against UN Resolution 1559 saying " The resistance will not give up its arms ... because Lebanon needs the resistance to defend it ", and added " all the articles of UN resolution give free services to the Israeli enemy who should have been made accountable for his crimes and now finds that he is being rewarded for his crimes and achieves all its demands ".

< div class =" center "> Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist after François Clouet ( c. 1559 ) London, Victoria and Albert Museum </ div > The Queen is shown wearing her rope of famous black pearls.

The word nicotiana ( as well as nicotine ) is in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent it as a medicine to the court of Catherine de Medici.

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By the autumn of 1559 several foreign princes were vying for the Queen's hand ; their impatient envoys came under the impression that Elizabeth was fooling them, " keeping Lord Robert's enemies and the country engaged with words until this wicked deed of killing his wife is consummated.

His tomb at the Minerva, by Pirro Ligorio, is dated 1559.

The Sheng ' an waiji ( 升庵外集 ) collection by the poet Yang Shen ( 楊慎, 1488 – 1559 ) gives different 5th and 9th names for the dragon's nine children: the taotie ( 饕餮 ), which loves to eat and is found on food-related wares, and the jiaotu ( 椒圖 ), which looks like a conch or clam, does not like to be disturbed, and is used on the front door or the doorstep.

The original character is often said to have been based on one Thomas Jones ( c. 1530-1609 ) who, according to the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, was pardoned for unspecified offences in 1559, wrote poetry, was a steward who " often had recourse to the law ", and married the widow of Thomas Rhys Williams of Ystrad-ffin.

Grantsville is located at ( 39. 6970 ,-79. 1559 ).

Little is known of his time at Trinity – he certainly studied rhetoric and dialectics under a program instituted in 1559, but although he is considered to have had all the intelligence to be a good student little is known of his academic achievements there.

He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces ; in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany ( e. g., 1560, 1575 – 1576 ); France ( 1559 – 1560 ); England and Ireland ( 1576 ), and Italy ( 1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558 ).

A long and eloquent Discours au roi ( detailing the duties of a prince, and translated from a Latin original written by Michel de l ' Hôpital, now lost ) was dedicated to Francis II in 1559, and is said to have secured for the poet a tardy pension.

Heidelberg is taken by the forces of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ( 1559 – 1632 ) on 19 September 1622.

Of particular note is the monumental cenotaph, which contained the heart of Bishop Joris of Egmond ( died 1559 ).

Most of the texts had been printed previously, from 1559 onward ; but Newton's version of Thebais is new, and earlier printed texts of Studley's versions of Hercules Oetaeus and Hippolytus, if they ever existed, have not survived.