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    Year 1553 (MDLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 2 – The siege of Metz in...
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    Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who...
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  • MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard published by the United States Department of Defense that defines the mechanical, electrical, and functional characteristics...
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    noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from 10 to 19 July 1553. Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII, through his youngest daughter...
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    Edward VI (category 1553 deaths)
    Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547...
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    1551; b. est. 1534, d. 24 March 1558) Countess Maria of Nassau 22 November 1553 23 July 1555 Died in infancy. Philip William, Prince of Orange and Count...
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    A succession crisis arose in England in 1553 from an intractable personal and religious conflict between the Protestant King Edward VI and his older half-sister...
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    by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip...
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    NGC 1553 is a prototypical lenticular galaxy in the constellation Dorado. It is the second brightest member of the Dorado Group of galaxies.[dubious –...
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    Şehzade Mustafa (category 1553 deaths)
    Şehzade Mustafa (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده مصطفى; c.1516/1517 – 6 October 1553) was an Ottoman prince, son of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his concubine...
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    Dmitry Ivanovich (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович; 11 October 1552 – 26 June 1553) was the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible, the Tsar of all Russia, and as such...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1553. Early – William Baldwin writes Beware the Cat (first published 1561), an...
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    Grey, de facto Queen of England and Ireland for nine days (10 July 1553 – 19 July 1553), as well as Lady Katherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey. Frances Brandon...
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  • John Griffith or Griffin (fl. 1553) was a Welsh præmonstratensian and a monk of the order of Cistercians in Halesowen Abbey, Worcestershire. He was educated...
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    Lady Jane Grey. She occupied the English throne from 10 July until 19 July 1553, having been declared the heir of King Edward VI. Guildford Dudley had a...
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  • 1550s BC (redirect from 1553 BC)
    Decades 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC Years 1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC 1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC Categories v t e...
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    The Invasion of Corsica of 1553 occurred when French, Ottoman, and Corsican exile forces combined to capture the island of Corsica from the Republic of...
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    "What Does Steve Bannon Want?". Opinion. The New York Times. p. SR1. eISSN 1553-8095. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on March 6...
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    Riot Act 1549 (redirect from Riot Act 1553)
    This offence was abolished by the Treason Act 1553, but another Act of that year, the Riot Act 1553 (1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 12), recreated it, but this...
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    and of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1553. He served as Lord Great Chamberlain from 1550 to 1553, in which role in 1551 he welcomed Mary of Guise...
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    This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1553. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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    Marie of Cleves or of Nevers (Marie de Clèves, Marie de Nevers; 1553–1574), by marriage the Princess of Condé, was the wife of Henry, Prince of Condé,...
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    Stephen Gardiner, after the accession of the Catholic Queen Mary I in July 1553. He was appointed to the Privy Council, and presided as Lord High Steward...
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    appeared in Geneva on 13 August 1553. Servetus was a fugitive on the run after he published The Restoration of Christianity (1553), Calvin scholar Bruce Gordon...
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    while a Franco-Ottoman fleet defended southern France. Although an attempted 1553 invasion of Tuscany ended with defeat at Marciano, in return for his support...
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    Lucrezia Maria Romola de' Medici (4 August 1470 – between 10 and 15 November 1553) was an Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and...
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    of the term company to mean "business association" was first recorded in 1553, and the abbreviation "co." dates from 1769. According to the Company Law...
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    VII (1485–1509) Henry VIII (1509–1547) Edward VI (1547–1553) Lady Jane Grey (1553) Mary I (1553–1558) Elizabeth I (1558–1603) Early modern Britain including...
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  • statesman of Albanian origin. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1553 and 1555. He led the Ottoman troops that captured the Hungarian fortress...
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  • Great Britain (1784), Baron Paget, de Beaudesert, in the Peerage of England (1553), and is also an Irish Baronet, of Plas Newydd in the County of Anglesey...
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