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January 5 A great fire breaks out in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
January 12 (10th waxing of Tabodwe 915 ME) Bayinnaung is crowned king of the Burmese Taungoo Dynasty at his new capital at Pegu, after a previous coronation on January 11, 1551, and takes the regnal name of Thiri Thudhamma Yaza.
January 21 Edward Courtenay, one of the four plotters of Wyatt's rebellion in England, is arrested and reveals that an attempt will be made to overthrow the English government.
January 25 São Paulo, Brazil, is founded.
January 27 Wyatt's rebellion begins in England at Maidstone as Sir Thomas Wyatt reads a proclamation that Queen Mary of England’s marriage to King Philip of Spain will "bring upon this realm most miserable servitude, and establish popish religion". Within two days, Wyatt has raised 2,000 soldiers to join his plan to overthrow Queen Mary.
January 30 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, one of the English conspirators in Wyatt's rebellion, leads troops from Leicester to Coventry, but the group finds that the gates of the city are closed because the rebellion has been exposed.
February 9 Thomas Wyatt surrenders to government forces in London.
February 12 After claiming the throne of England the previous year, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
March 18 Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of working with the organizers of Wyatt's rebellion for the overthrow of Queen Mary of England.

April 12 Mary of Guise becomes Regent of Scotland.
May 9 Elizabeth is released from the Tower of London, although she continues to be confined at home after she is cleared of suspicion of conspiracy to overthrow the government.

Italian General Piero Strozzi successfully defends an attack on the Republic of Siena by French troops, led by Cosimo de' Medici at the battle of Pontedera, but suffers a tremendous loss of his own troops in the process.
A gunpowder explosion triggered by lightning causes fires that destroy much of the city of Luxembourg.

July 25 Queen Mary I of England marries King Prince Philip of Naples, the only son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and heir to the throne of Spain, at Winchester Cathedral just two days after their first meeting.
August 2 Battle of Marciano: Senese–French forces are defeated by the Florentine–Imperial army.
August 12 Battle of Renty: French forces led by François, Duke of Guise turn back an invasion of Picardy, by Charles V.
September 13 (Shawwal 15, 961 AH) At the Battle of Tadla in Morocco, Mohammed ash-Sheikh, ruler of the Saadi dynasty enters the city of Fez and becomes the undisputed sultan. Ali Abu Hassun, last ruler of the Wattasid dynasty, flees.

October 8 In Peru, an 11-month long rebellion by Francisco Hernández Girón is ended at the Battle of Pucará with the rebels defeated by the Viceroy of Peru near Cuzco.
October 21 The Plassenburg castle in Bavaria, residence of the ruling House of Hohenzollern in the Principality of Ansbach, is destroyed during the Second Margrave War.
November 1 English captain John Lok, commanding three ships (the Trinitie, the Bartholomew and the John Evangelist), departs from Dartmouth in England to voyage to the Guinea Coast at West Africa.
November 22 Upon the death of his father, Sultan Islam Shah Suri, 12-year-old Firuz Shah Suri becomes the Sultan of the Sur Empire at Delhi, but he is murdered within a few days.
December 22 The John Lok expedition reaches Guinea, anchoring at the Sesto River and remains for seven days to begin trading."

Mikael Agricola becomes the bishop of Turku.
Saadi conquers the Kingdom of Fez.
Exact center year of Counter Reformation.
The name of the beer brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company is based on a recipe from this date, called "1554."
Luso-Chinese agreement: Portugal reaches an agreement with the Ming Dynasty of China, to be allowed to legally trade in the province of Guangdong. This agreement is often seen as a starting point of the Portuguese colony of Macau.
Rao Surjan Singh becomes ruler of Bundi.