Year by year · 16th century

1554

1554 in world history: 6 events, 5 births, 9 deaths, 1 work, 1 state founded and 1 that came to an end. 998 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 25 January

    Jesuit missionaries found São Paulo

    Manuel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta celebrated Mass at a new Jesuit mission on the Piratininga plateau. The settlement grew into São Paulo, now the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere.

    São Paulo

  2. 12 February

    Lady Jane Grey is executed at the Tower

    The teenage Protestant queen, deposed after nine days in 1553, was beheaded on Mary I's orders following Wyatt's Rebellion. Her husband Guildford Dudley was executed the same morning.

  3. Battle

    Battle of Marciano

    The Battle of Marciano, also called Scannagallo, was fought on 2 August 1554 in the Valdichiana between the forces of Cosimo I de' Medici and the Emperor Charles V and a Franco-Sienese army under Piero Strozzi.

  4. Battle

    Battle of Tadla

    The Battle of Tadla was fought in September 1554 near Tadla in central Morocco between the Saadi sultan Muhammad al-Shaykh and the Wattasid Ali Abu Hassun, who had retaken Fez earlier that year with Ottoman troops from Algiers.

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Wars and longer events

Born in 1554 5

Died in 1554 9

Works 1

States founded 1

States that came to an end 1

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