The culmination of Islamic dominance in the region occurred in 1557 when an Ottoman invasion during the time of Suleiman I and under Özdemir Pasha ( who had declared the province of Habesh in 1555 ) took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa, then capital of the local ruler Bahr negus Yeshaq ( ruler of Midri Bahri ).

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.

The publication in 1983 of Nostradamus's private correspondence and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of 1555 and 1557 discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the unearthing of much original archival material revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus did not fit the documented facts.

Richard Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne ( 1587 – 1633 ), was the daughter of Sir William Barne and the granddaughter of Sir George Barne III ( 1532-d. 1593 ), the Lord Mayor of London and a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I ; and Anne Gerrard, daughter of Sir William Garrard, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1555.

Bourbon monarchs ruled Navarre ( from 1555 ) and France ( from 1589 ) until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

It was in November 1555, shortly after Charles had abdicated in favour of his son, Philip II of Spain that the gout-afflicted Emperor leaned on William's shoulder during his abdication ceremony.

Trinity College was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope, on land bought following the abolition of Durham College during the period of Protestant Reformation, whose buildings housed the original foundation.

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.

The first known book about tennis, Trattato del Giuoco della Palla was written during his reign, in 1555, by an Italian priest, Antonio Scaino da Salo.

The Sienese commune was not incorporated into Tuscany until 1555, and during the 15th century Siena enjoyed a cultural ' Sienese Renaissance ' with its own more conservative character.

An earlier mention of tipstaff is in 1555 when the Rev'd Dr Rowland Taylor was burned at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary I for his religious views that were contrary to those of the Archbishop of Canterbury Cranmer and Lord Chancellor Gardiner.

He lived and worked in Naples for a while, and in Rome, in the employ of Cardinal Orsini, although he was in England for a brief period, 1554 – 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, while she was married to King Philip II of Spain.

Rowland Taylor ( sometimes spelled " Tayler ") ( October 6, 1510 – February 9, 1555 ) was an English Protestant martyr during the Marian Persecutions.

Many Protestants were executed during the reigns of Queen Mary ( 1553 – 1554 ) and Philip and Mary ( 1554 – 1558 ), including Christopher Waid, a Dartford linen-weaver who was burnt at the stake in front of thousands of spectators on the Brent in 1555.

His raids of 1555 and 1571 were especially devastating for Muscovy ( he even managed to burn down Moscow during the 1571 campaign ) but he suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Molodi in 1572.

From 1555 to his death he was chamberlain of that city, though he spent several years in Ireland as legal adviser to Sir Peter Carew during his claim to lands there.

From 1551 to 1553 he was employed by Myles Coverdale during his short incumbency as Bishop of Exeter ; and then in 1555 he became the first chamberlain of Exeter, a post that he held until his death.

The school was originally founded in Saxon times, it was re-founded in 1555 during the reign of Queen Mary.

The celebrations mark both Guy Fawkes Night and the burning of 17 Protestant martyrs in Lewes ' High Street from 1555 to 1557, during the reign of Mary Tudor.

In 1555 he took charge of Bergenhus Fortress, and in the years 1555-56 he was commander-in-chief during the absence of Christopher Huitfeldt.

In 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, the Berties were among the Marian exiles who left for the Continent.

Peter Lombard ( Waterford, Ireland, c. 1555 – Rome, 1625 ) was a Roman Catholic archbishop of Armagh during the Counter Reformation.

* Oxford martyrs, 1555 ( during Mason's period as Chancellor of Oxford )

The populace became Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation, and the bishopric was secularized in 1555 following the death of the last Catholic bishop, Georg von Blumenthal.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

It was the first new Oxford college since 1555, in the reign of Queen Mary, when Trinity College and St John's College were founded as Roman Catholic colleges.

Joanna ( 6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555 ), known as Joanna the Mad (), was the first queen regnant to reign over both the Kingdoms of Castile ( 1504 – 55 ) and of Aragon ( 1516 – 55 ), a union which evolved into modern Spain.

In 1555 a charter of the joint monarchs Philip and Mary restored the cathedral's privileges and initiated restoration and a late document of Queen Mary's reign, a deed dated 27 April 1558, comprises a release or receipt by Thomas Leverous, the new Dean, and the Chapter of St. Patrick's, of the " goods, chattels, musical instruments, etc .," belonging to the Cathedral, and which had been in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church.

During Cosimo's reign, Florence purchased the island of Elba from the Republic of Genoa ( in 1548 ) and made its largest territorial acquisition ( the annexation of the Republic of Siena in 1555 ).

During the reign of Mary I in 1555, St Sepulchre's vicar, John Rogers, was burned as a heretic.

In most cases, even if such considerations are absent, popes tend to choose new papal names ; the last pope to reign under his baptismal name was Pope Marcellus II ( 1555 ).

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

* 1479 – Queen Joanna of Castile of Spain ( d. 1555 )

* November 6 – Joanna of Castile, Queen of Philip I of Castile, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon ( d. 1555 )

Probably the Queen had more to do with this rumour than Cecil, though he is said to have opposed, in the parliament of 1555 ( in which he represented Lincolnshire ), a bill for the confiscation of the estates of the Protestant refugees.

In 1555, Queen Mary issued a charter authorising the Muscovy Company to trade with Russia via the White Sea route.

* Jeanne d ' Albret ( 1528 – 1572 ), Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572

It seems the unostentatious hunting lodge was rebuilt many times, and had an uneventful history until Elizabeth I, before her succession, was imprisoned there by her sister Queen Mary between 1554 and 1555.

Following the accession of the Catholic Mary I in 1553 and her marriage to Philip, Prince of Asturias in 1554, Pope Paul IV issued the papal bull " Ilius " in 1555, recognizing them as Queen and King of Ireland together with her heirs and successors.

He published his Hymns, dedicated to Margaret de Valois, in 1555 ; the conclusion of the Amours, addressed to another heroine, in 1556 ; and then a collection of Œuvres completes, said to be due to the invitation of Mary Stuart, Queen of Francis II, in 1560 ; with Elégies, mascarades et bergeries in 1565.

In 1555, under Queen Mary, he was burnt at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.

*( London 1555 ) A notable Sermon at the Exequies of Joan, Queen of Spain

In 1923, Pope Pius XI conferred upon her the Golden Rose which was the first time this honor had been awarded on a British-born princess since 1555 when Pope Julius III conferred one upon Queen Mary I of England.

In the following year he and Simon Renard, the ambassador of Charles V to the Queen Mary I of England, conducted the negotiations for the marriage of Mary and Philip II of Spain, to whom, in 1555, on the abdication of the emperor, he transferred his services, and by whom he was employed in the Netherlands.

The College has had its home in the City of London since its foundation, and has been at its present location on Queen Victoria Street since 1555.

In the Papal Bull Ilius of 1555, the Pope had conferred the title King of Ireland on King Philip II of Spain when he was married to Queen Mary.

Also in January 1555, Dudley's mother died, leaving him her lands, which Queen Mary allowed him to inherit despite his attainder.

Pembroke was Mary's most effective commander at the battle of St Quentin, when he led the English contingent that included among the officers such former reformists as Lord Braye, Sir Peter Carew, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and the surviving sons of the duke of Northumberland ; John Dudley, the son of Northumberland, had died not long after he left the Tower and his three surviving brothers, Ambrose, Robert, and Henry were pardoned for their recorded treasons in January, 1555 and so duly served the Queen and King Philip on the St Quentin expedition, where Henry Dudley was killed and his brothers won the restoration of their honour and titles.