     __notoc__ year 1553 (mdliii) was a common year starting on sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the julian calendar. == events == === january&ndash;june === * may &ndash; the first royal charter is granted to st. albans in england. * june 26 &ndash; christ's hospital and king edward's school, witley, england, are created by royal charter. === july&ndash;december === * july 9 &ndash; battle of sievershausen: prince-elector maurice of saxony defeats the catholic forces of margrave albert of brandenburg-kulmbach. maurice is mortally wounded. * july 10 &ndash; four days after the death of her cousin king edward vi of england, lady jane grey is proclaimed queen of england &ndash; a position she holds for the next nine days. * july 18 &ndash; the lord mayor of london proclaims mary i the rightful queen; lady jane grey voluntarily abdicates. * july 19 &ndash; queen mary i of england begins her reign. * august 3 &ndash; queen mary i of england arrives in london from east anglia. * august 22 &ndash; john dudley, 1st duke of northumberland, a supporter of lady jane grey, is executed. * august &ndash; english explorer richard chancellor enters the white sea and reaches arkhangelsk, going on to the court of ivan iv of russia, opening up trade between england and russia. * september &ndash; protestant bishops in england are arrested and roman catholic bishops are restored. * september 23 &ndash; the sadians consolidate their power in morocco by defeating the last of their enemies. * october 27 &ndash; geneva's governing council burns michael servetus at the stake as a heretic. * december 25 &ndash; battle of tucapel: mapuche rebels under lautaro defeat the spanish conquistadors and execute pedro de valdivia, the first royal governor of chile. === date unknown === * tonbridge school founded by sir andrew judde under letters patent of edward vi of england. * publication in london of the xiii bukes of eneados of the famose poete virgill, the first published complete translation of any major work of classical antiquity into one of the english languages. * in ming dynasty china: ** th
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