In the year 1555, John Rogers - burned at the stake in London - becomes the first Protestant martyr under Mary I of England (Feb 4), Pope Paul IV creates the Roman Ghetto, the first Jewish ghetto in Rome (Jul 12), Russia breaks a 60-year-old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland, negro – the Spanish term for black person – is coined - and all these fine people were born:

1555-0126 Charles II, Lord of Monaco * Lord of Monaco - Monaco (1589/34)

1555-0225 Alonso Lobo * (B) composer - Osuna, Spain (1617/62)

1555-0321 John Leveson * politician - Whornes Place, Kent, England (1615/60)

1555-0421 Ludovico Carracci* Italian painter/etcher/printmaker – Bologna (1619/64)

1555-0509 Jerónima de la Asunción* Catholic nun/founder of a monastery in the Philippines - Toledo, Spain (1630/75)

1555-0613 Giovanni Antonio Magini* astronomer/ astrologer/cartographer – Padua, Italy (1617/61)

1555-0714 Richard Carew* translator/antiquary - East Antony, Cornwall, England (1620/65)

1555-0801 Edward Kelley* occultist/medium – Worcester, England (1597-98/c.42)

1555-0921 John Thynne * landowner/Member of Parliament - Longleat House, Wiltshire, England (1604/49)

1555-1006 Ferenc Nádasdy* nobleman - Sárvár, Kingdom of Hungary (1604/49)
1555-1027 Francis Marbury (B) schoolmaster/ playwright/father of Anne Hutchinson - London, England (1611/55)

1555-1108 Nyaungyan Min* King of Burma - Pegu, Burma (1605/49)

1555-1204 Heinrich Meibom* historian/poet - Barntrup, Westphalia, Germany (1625/69)

Updated 23.3.2021
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