Jan 27 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies

Jan 23 Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shansi Province, China

Jan 27 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies

Jan 16 Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain

Feb 14 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic

Feb 05 Kings Henri I &Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles

Nov 10 Russian treasure ship Edward Bonaventure, carrying Ivan the Terrible's ambassador to Elizabeth 1 of England, was wrecked off Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire

Mar 22 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury

Mar 21 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake as a heretic.