In the year 1557, Spanish forces launch a surprise attack against the indigenous Mapuche in present-day Chile (Apr 30), Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain in his war against France (Jun 7), Spain becomes bankrupt, throwing the German banking houses into chaos, the Portuguese settle permanently in Macau with the permission of the Ming dynasty government, the Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde publishes The Whetstone of Witte, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English of plus and minus signs - and all these fine people were born:
1557-xxxx Toda Katsushige* 戸田 勝成 daimyo/served also under Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Japan (1600/43)
1557-xxxx Olaus Martini* (b Olof Mårtensson) Archbishop of Uppsala - Uppsala, Kingdom of Sweden (1609/c. 52)
1557-xxxx Thomas Morley* singer/ organist/composer - Norwich, England (1602/c. 45)
1557-xxxx Oda Nobutada* 織田 信忠 samurai/eldest son of Oda Nobunaga - Owari Province, Japan (1582/c.27)
1557-0101 Stephen Bocskai* Prince of Transylvania - Kolozsvár, Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (1606/49)
1557-0211 Johannes Wtenbogaert* Protestant minister/a leader of the Remonstrants - Utrecht (1644/87)
1557-0215 Vittoria Accoramboni* Italian noblewoman - Gubbio, Umbria (1585/28)
1557-0215 Alfonso Fontanelli* nobleman/ composer/writer - Reggio nell’Emilia (1622/64)
1557-0224 Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor* son of Maximilian II - Vienna (1619/62)
1557-0321 Anne Howard* (b Dacre) Countess of Arundel/poet/religious conspirator - Carlisle, Cumberland, England (1630/73)
1557-0404 Lew Sapieha* nobleman/ statesman - near Vitebsk, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1633/76)
1557-0505 Emanuel Philibert de Lalaing* nobleman/ army commander - Valenciennes (1590/33)
1557-0531 Feodor I of Russia* son of Ivan The Terrible – Moscow, Russian Empire (1598/40)
1557-0610 Leandro Bassano* Italian painter - Bassano del Grappa, Republic of Venice (1622/64)
1557-0816 Agostino Carracci* painter/ printmaker/art teacher – Bologna, Italy (1602/44)
1557-0904 Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow* Danish-Norwegian royal consort - Wismar (1631/74)
1557-0916 Jacques Mauduit* composer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1627/69)
1557-1005 Antoine Favre* Savoisian nobleman/jurist - Bourg-en-Bresse, Kingdom of France (1624/c. 66)
Published in Tampa, FL. Updated 4.7.2022
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