Charles, anxious to secure such a famous fighter, gladly assented to Albert's demands and gave the imperial sanction to his possession of the lands taken from the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg ; and his conspicuous bravery was of great value to the Emperor on the retreat from Metz in January 1553.

The rival forces met at Sievershausen on 9 July 1553, and after a combat of unusual ferocity Albert was put to flight.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

In 1553, the state was captured by the Hindu Emperor Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly known as Hemu, who was killed in 1556 in the Second Battle of Panipat.

What is known is that there was a chapel in Accrington prior to 1553 where the vicar of Whalley was responsible for the maintenance of divine worship.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

It was used only for a few months, as after Edward VI's death in 1553, his half-sister Mary I restored Roman Catholic worship.

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.

However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

In 1552 he was appointed Generalsuperintendent at Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg, where he died on the 5th of May 1553.

His incorrupt body was taken from the island in February 1553 and was temporarily buried in St. Paul's church in Malacca on 22 March 1553.

On 11 December 1553, Xavier's body was shipped to Goa.

In 1553 he was executed in Geneva under the authority of John Calvin, but his teachings remained very influential amongst Italian Protestant exiles.

In 1553 he cured the Scottish Archbishop of St Andrews of a disease that had left him speechless and was thought incurable.

Lucas Cranach the Elder ( 1472 – 1553 ), the great painter patronized by the electors of Wittenberg, was a close friend of Luther, and illustrated Luther's theology for a popular audience.

Edward was beginning to show great promise when he fell violently ill with tuberculosis in 1553 and died that August two months short of his 16th birthday.

A market was running outside the abbey from the 10th century ; it was confirmed by King John of England in 1202 and by a Royal Charter of Edward VI in 1553.

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

In 1553, after the city was sacked by Dragut's corsairs, it was decided to rebuild the walls, together with a massive tower which was erected on the summit of Sant ' Angelo hill.

However, from 1381 until the end of the fifteenth century Vannes ( Gwened in Breton ) had served as the administrative capital of the Duchy, remaining the seat of its Chambre des comptes until the 1490s, and also the seat of the its Parlement until 1553 and then again between 1675 and 1689.

United Nations Security Council resolution 1559, adopted on 2 September 2004, after recalling resolutions 425 ( 1978 ), 426 ( 1978 ), 520 ( 1982 ) and 1553 ( 2004 ) on the situation in Lebanon, the Council supported free and fair presidential elections in Lebanon and called upon remaining foreign forces to withdraw from the country.

For its own defence against Christian raids, the kahal petitioned the Kazimierz town council for the right to build its own interior wall, cutting across the western end of the older defensive walls in 1553.

The whole complex is surrounded by defensive walls, originally built hastily by Michelangelo during the siege and in 1553 expanded into a true fortress ( fortezza ) by Cosimo I de ' Medici.

Emperor Charles V during the Italian War of 1551 – 1559 made military attempt to forcibly regain the overlordship over Metz, besieging the city in 1552 – 1553.

Created in 1553, this authority was headed by three of the city ’ s patricians and was responsible for making sure the regulations concerning the practice of law were observed.

As a reward for the support given to Mary I by the bailiffs and citizens during the Duke of Northumberland's attempt to prevent her accession, the Queen issued a new charter in 1553, confirming the 1548 charter and in addition granting the city its own Sheriff.

The city was plundered by French forces in 1553, and by British forces under Christopher Myngs in 1662.

Among the new buildings include the Colegiata de San Patricio, erected in 1553, which is the religious centre of the city, as well as numerous convents of La Merced, Santo Domingo and San Francisco.

The Asunción Church is the oldest in the city, constructed in 1553, and remodeled several times, with major reconstruction in 1719.

Prior to that, the last major eruptions were in 1553 and in 1660, when about 30 cm of ash fell on the city.

Francisco de Aguirre founded the city of Santiago del Estero in 1553 as the most northerly city founded by Spanish conquistadores coming from the Pacific Ocean.

In the summer of 1552 – 1553 Governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia sent Francisco de Villagra to explore the area east of the Andes at the latitudes of the city of Valdivia.

The first evidence of a promissory note being issued is that which Ginaldo Giovanni Battista Strozzi issued in Medina del Campo ( Spain ), against the city of Besançon in 1553.

* Jörg Breu Sketchbook ( Cod. I. 6. 2 °. 4 ), Augsburg city archive, Schätze B2 Reichsstadt, 1553, 110 folia, illustrated by Heinrich Vogtherr, based material acquired from Anthon Rast of Nürnberg ( d. 1549 ).

The city was founded by João Ramalho in 1553 and was known as Vila de Santo André da Borda do Campo de Piratininga, soon transferred to another nearby place, safer from hostile tribes.

Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, jure uxoris Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo () ( July 13, 1484 – Florence, Italy, February 21, 1553 ) was the first effective Spanish viceroy of Naples, 1532 – 1552, responsible for considerable social, economic and urban change in the city and southern Italian kingdom, in general.

João Ramalho founded the city of Santo André in 1553.

Rostam Gorgani was the court physician of two of the rulers of the Deccan sultanates, Malik Ahmad Shah I ( 1490 – 1510 ) and Burhan Shah I ( 1510 – 1553 ), in the city of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan Plateau, India.

The Beijing city wall was a series of fortifications built between 1436 and 1553.

In 1553, a large rectangular Outer city wall and moat system was completed to the south of the original city, forming a shape similar to the " 凸 " character.