However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

Both the 16th Earl and the Countess of Oxford had established court connections: John accompanying Princess Elizabeth from house arrest at Hatfield to the throne, and Margery being appointed a Maid of Honor in 1559.

In 1559 John Knox returned from ministering in Geneva to lead the Calvinism | Calvinist reformation in Scotland

* 1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.

* May 29 – John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr ( b. 1559 )

** John Overall, English bishop ( b. 1559 )

" He was also a history enthusiast, and in 1559 suggested to the tailor John Stow to become a chronicler ( as Stow recalled in 1604 ).

The Scottish Reformation also played a big role in the town with the sacking of the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, after a sermon given by John Knox in St John's Kirk in 1559.

She was buried at the Carthusian Priory of St John in Perth ( demolished during the Reformation, 1559 ).

* John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury ( 1559 to 1571 )

Other confessions had acquired popular, if not legal, legitimacy in the intervening decades and by 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers ; the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest ; and the followers of Huldrych Zwingli were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

* John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame ( 1500 – 1559 ), Lord Chamberlain

In England Frisius's method was included in the growing number of books on surveying which appeared from the middle of the century onwards, including William Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse ( 1559 ), Valentine Leigh's Treatise of Measuring All Kinds of Lands ( 1562 ), William Bourne's Rules of Navigation ( 1571 ), Thomas Digges's Geometrical Practise named Pantometria ( 1571 ), and John Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue ( 1607 ).

** John Spenser, editor and translator ( born 1559 )

After John was beheaded, the Crown owned the estate until it was acquired in 1559 by Sir Arthur Champernowne, Vice-Admiral of the West under Elizabeth I.

In 1559 John became an affeeror, an officer responsible for assessing fines for offenses carrying penalties not explicitly defined by existing statutes.

By 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers, the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest, or those followers of Huldrych Zwingli, were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin, as a theological seminary and law school.

* 1559 John Plunket

* Isabella Jagiellon ( 18 January 1519 – 15 September 1559 ), wife and widow of King John I of Hungary.

The title page from the 1559 edition of John Calvin's Institutio Christianae Religionis

* John Hall ( Scotland ) ( c. 1559 – 1627 ), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

In 1559 the executors of Sir John Port's will purchased from the Thacker family, for £ 37. 10s (£ 37. 50 ), the land which had once housed a twelfth-century Augustinian Priory, and the accompanying buildings which had survived Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries and subsequent upheavals, namely, the Guest Chamber and Prior's Lodging ( which as the Old Priory currently houses the School Library and Common Room ), Overton's Tower ( now part of School House ), the Tithe Barn, and the Arch, which is all that now remains of the priory's original gatehouse and which helped inspire the School's motto: porta vacat culpa.

* John Spenser or Spencer ( 1559 – 1614 ), one of the translators of the authorized version ( 1611 ) of the Bible and president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Knox left in January 1559, but he did not arrive in Scotland until 2 May 1559, owing to Elizabeth's refusal to issue him a passport through England.

On 16 December 1555, and again in December 1556, Whittingham was elected an elder of the church at Geneva ; on 16 December 1558 he was appointed deacon, and in 1559 he succeeded Knox as minister.

In 1559 John Knox returned from ministering in Geneva to lead the Calvinism | Calvinist reformation in Scotland

The History of the Reformation in Scotland is a five-volume book written by the Scottish reformer, John Knox, between 1559 and 1566.

In 1559 during the Scottish Reformation, the leaders of the Protestant nobility, the Lords of the Congregation, asked Knox to write a history of the movement.

Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange and John Knox gave a list of members of the Congregation who expelled the troops of Mary of Guise from Perth in June 1559 and moved on Edinburgh, these were ;

Knox and Kirkcaldy gave the names of another six lords who had not yet declared their alliance in July 1559 ; William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal ; the Earl of Athol ; Lord Forbes ; and James Douglas, Laird of Drumlanrig ; the Laird of Lochinvar ; and the Laird of Garlies.

1559: John Knox is appointed minister of St Giles ' church

This was opposed by many other English exiles, especially those seeking favor with Elizabeth I, such as John Aylmer, who published a retort to Knox called Harborowe for Faithful and True Subjects in 1559.

Laurence Humphrey, working out of Strasbourg, claimed to be clarifying what Knox, Ponet, and Goodman really meant when he defended passive resistance only and supported the legitimacy of female rule in De religionis conservatione et reformatione vera ( 1559 ).

* William D. Maxwell, The Liturgical Portions of the Genevan Service Book used by John Knox While a Minister of the English Congregation of Marian Exiles at Geneva, 1556 – 1559.

He was made governor of Berwick upon Tweed, where he was visited by John Knox and James MacGill in 1559, and where he busied himself actively on behalf of the Scottish Protestants.

A priest and historian from Dithmarschen, Neocorus, wrote in 1598 that the banner captured in 1500, was brought to the church in Wöhrden and hung there for the next 59 years, until it was returned to the Danes as part of the peace settlement in 1559.

Mary I died in 1558, and she was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth I. Walsingham returned to England, and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1559

From 1559 until 1844 the parliamentary constituency of Sudbury returned two Members of Parliament, before it was disenfranchised for corruption.

In August 1559 Sozzini returned to Zürich, where his brief career was closed by his death on May 14, 1562, at his lodging in the house of Hans Wyss, a silk-weaver.

Recalled to Bourges at the death of Duaren in 1559, he remained there till 1567, when he returned to Valence.

Crossing to England, he took part in the ceremonial of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in January 1559 ; and in the following July he returned to Ireland with a fresh commission, now as lord lieutenant, from the new queen, whose policy required him to come to terms if possible with the troublesome leaders of the O ' Neills and the MacDonnells.

With the advance of the troops of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia in the course of the Livonian War, he sold his lands to King Frederick II of Denmark in 1559 and returned to Germany.

Villegaignon had already returned to France, in 1559, disgusted with the infighting between Catholics and Protestants in the small colony.

In 1559 Cox returned to England, and was elected bishop of Norwich, but the queen changed her mind and Cox's destination to Ely, where he remained twenty-one years.

When Elizabeth came to power, he returned to England and was made a canon of the Canterbury Cathedral in 1559.

They returned to England in January 1559, two months after Elizabeth I's succession.

He was returned for Essex a further eight times in 1553 ( twice ), 1554 ( twice ), 1555, 1558, 1559 and 1563.

Following the death of his father in 1559, he returned to Denmark for the coronation of his older brother, King Frederick II of Denmark.

Under Queen Elizabeth, he was again returned to Parliament ( as member for East Grinstead in 1553, Bramber in Apr 1554, Bath in Nov 1554, Ludgershall in 1555 and Downton in 1559.