Year 1547 (MDXLVII)
Year 1547 (MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, a Catechism (Katekizmo paprasti žodžiai, Simple Words of Catechism), is published in Königsberg by Martynas Mažvydas.
- January 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason in England.
- January 16 – Grand Prince Ivan IV is crowned as Tsar of all Russia at the Dormition Cathedral in Moscow, thereby proclaiming the Tsardom of Russia.
- January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI, as King of England.
- February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- March 31 – King Francis I of France dies at the Château de Rambouillet and is succeeded by his eldest surviving son Henry II as King of France.
April–June
- April 4 – Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley.
- April 24 – Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League and takes John Frederick I.
- May 19 – John Frederick I signs the Capitulation of Wittenberg to have his life spared by the Holy Roman Empire.
- May 23 – The Protestant Schmalkaldic League defeats the Catholic Army of the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Drakenburg.
- June 4 – Maurice, Duke of Saxony is formally raised to the status of the Elector.
- June 13 – A peace treaty is signed between representatives of the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire and France.
- June 21 – The apparition of Mary, mother of Jesus, is seen by several women in the Sicilian city of Alcamo.
July–September
- July 10 – In France, a duel takes place between Guy I de Chabot and François de Vivonne in front of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
- July 17 – The Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland for Mary, Queen of Scots, attempts to regain control of Langholm by force.
- July 25 – The coronation of Henri II as King of France at the Reims Cathedral.
- August 13 – The Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France.
- September 10 – Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: An English army under the Duke of Somerset defeats a Scottish army.
October–December
- October 13 – The Kingdom of Burma mobilizes to invade the Kingdom of Arakan.
- December 5 – The Battle of Perlis River is fought between the Portuguese Navy and the navy of the Aceh Sultanate.
- December 24 – King Edward VI gives royal assent to several laws enacted by Parliament.
- December 28 – Sir John Luttrell raided the Scottish port of Burntisland.
Date unknown
- Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent.
- The Chambre Ardente is established in Paris for trying heretics.
- Construction of the Château de Chambord ceases.
- Edward VI outlaws execution by boiling.
Births
- January 15 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg (d. 1590)
- January 20 – Laurence Bruce, Scottish politician (d. 1617)
- March 26 – Bernardino Bertolotti, Italian instrumentalist (d. 1609)
- September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish fiction writer (d. 1616)
Deaths
- January 28 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
- March 31 – King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
- September 10 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1503)
- December 2 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador (b. 1485)