In 1556 Charles V abdicated.

Philip II became king on Charles V's abdication in 1556.

Mary then married her cousin Philip, son of the emperor Charles V, and King of Spain when Charles abdicated in 1556.

* 1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.

* June 28 – Charles I of Spain becomes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( rules until 1556 ).

In Brussels on Oct. 25, 1555, Charles V abdicated the Netherlands to his son, who in January 1556 assumed the throne of Spain as Philip II.

Charles V then had his Spanish subjects repopulate the island and build the massive city walls atop the walls of the ancient Greek acropolis in 1556.

Charles V abdicated in 1556 and decreed that the territories of the Burgundian Circle should be held by the Spanish Crown.

Charles V (; ; ; ; 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558 ) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.

" Charles retired in 1556.

Charles abdicated as Emperor in 1556 in favor of his brother Ferdinand ; however, due to lengthy debate and bureaucratic procedure, the Imperial Diet did not accept the abdication ( and thus make it legally valid ) until 24 February 1558.

After Charles V's abdication in 1556, his realms were divided between his son, Philip II of Habsburg, King of Spain, and his brother, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Melting of styles occurred during the period when the Holy Roman Empire and Burgundy were part of the dominions under Charles I ( king of Spain from 1516 to 1556 ), since composers from the North both visited Spain, and native Spaniards travelled within the empire, which extended to the Netherlands, Germany and Italy.

When Charles retired in 1556, Ferdinand became his de facto successor as Holy Roman Emperor, and de jure in 1558, while Spain, the Spanish Empire, Naples, Sicily, Milan, the Netherlands, and Franche-Comté went to Philip, son of Charles.

In 1556, amid great pomp, and leaning on the shoulder of one of his favorites ( the 24-year-old William, Count of Nassau and Orange ), Charles gave away his lands and his offices.

Charles abdicated as Emperor in January, 1556 in favor of his brother Ferdinand ; however, due to lengthy debate and bureaucratic procedure, the Imperial Diet did not accept the abdication ( and thus make it legally valid ) until May 3, 1558.

In 1556, Charles V named his new fortress Philippeville in honour of his son, Philip II of Spain, who would succeed him in the Netherlands – and on the city – the following year.

Charles ' abdication in 1556 split the Habsburg empire between Philip II of Spain and Ferdinand I, and shifted the focus of the war to Flanders, where Philip, in conjunction with Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, defeated the French at St. Quentin.

Returning to England from a mission to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in April 1556, Fitzwalter was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.

In 1556 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor retired to the Monastery of Yuste, near Cuacos de Yuste, after having abdicated the Spanish crown in favour of his son Philip II of Spain and the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in favour of his brother Ferdinand I.

* Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1538 – 1604 ) married in 1556 Henry V of Plauen, Burgrave of Meissen.

In 1556 he joined the court of Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria, who was consciously attempting to create a musical establishment on a par with the major courts in Italy.

* Personal union with Spain from 1519 to 1556 under Charles V.

* Personal union of the crowns that would later form Spain ( Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon ) with the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 to 1556 under Charles I ( Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ).

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1516 – 1556 )

In Spain, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abdicated on 16 January 1556, whereupon Philip and Mary became King and Queen of Spain, which at the time held the Netherlands.

A map of the dominion of the House of Habsburg | Habsburgs following the abdication of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles V ( 1556 ) as depicted in The Cambridge Modern History Atlas ( 1912 ); Habsburg lands are shaded green.

After the abdication of Emperor Charles V in 1556, the Burgundian fiefs were bequested to his son King Philip II of Spain.

* Pomponio Nenna ( 1556 – 1613 ), composer, conferred by Charles V in 1530

Although opposed to Mary's proposed Habsburg marriage, Mason remained as ambassador to Charles V but he was in Windsor in March 1556 and finally recalled to England that summer.

* August 23, 1556: new coat of arms and lordship of Serooskerke in Walcheren granted by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain

In 1556 he abdicated from his positions, giving his Spanish empire to his only surviving son, Philip II of Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire to his brother, Ferdinand.

He abdicated as King of Hungary in 1551 but was re-elected by Diet of Szászsebes in 1556.

After the emperor had abdicated in 1556, his successor Ferdinand I discontinued all attempts to regain the Three Bishoprics.

John was commendator until 1556 when he stepped down in favour of his nephew, David Erskine.

Later in 1556 a member of the parish, Agres George, part of the Stratford Martyrs, was out of favour with Queen Mary, for refusing to attend church until the service was no longer conducted in the Roman Catholic tradition.

After Sher Shah's death, his son Islam Shah Suri and the Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, who had won 22 battles against Afghan rebels and forces of Akbar, from Punjab to Bengal and had established a secular Hindu rule in North India from Delhi till 1556.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

John Shakespeare's large half-timbered dwelling, purchased by him in 1556, was in 1564 the birthplace of his son William.

Ironically, Saitō Dōsan fell in a coup d ' état led by his own son Saitō Yoshitatsu in 1556.

Lelio ( who spelled his surname Sozzini, Latinizing it Socinus ) was the sixth son of Mariano Sozzini the younger ( 1482 – 1556 ) by his wife Camilla Salvetti, and was educated as a jurist under his father's eye at Bologna.

Finally, the Diet, meeting in Sebeş on March 12, 1556, swore again allegiance to " the son of King John ", thus the young king and his mother returned to Transylvania.

On January 24, 1556, the Mughal ruler Humanyun died in Delhi and was succeeded by his son, Akbar at Kalanaur, who was only thirteen years old.

After Charles ' abdication in 1556, the Seventeen Provinces passed to his son Philip II of Spain.

His son Hugh died in 1556 holding the same estate which he left to his son John.

* Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon ( 1527 – 1556 ) ( also restored in blood, but not honours, 1553 ; fifth creation dormant 1556 †) son of Henry above.

James Forrester of Corstorphine ( son of the previously mentioned James Forrester ), husband of Janet Lauder, was confirmed by Mary, Queen of Scots, on 5 February 1556 in the Barony of Corstorphine.

Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell ( 1512 – September 1556 ) was the son of Adam Hepburn, Lord Hailes, who died at the Battle of Flodden the year after Patrick's birth.

* Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell ( 1512 – 1556 ), son of Adam, 2nd Earl of Bothwell

He married Gertude Talbot, daughter of Henry Talbot ( 1554 – 1596 ) ( Henry was the son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury ), and Elizabeth Reyner ( born 1556 ) on 8 Jan 1601 in Overton Longueville, Huntingtonshire.

He was succeeded by his son, Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley ( 1556 – 1643 ).