1557
| Years: 1554 1555 1556 - 1557 - 1558 1559 1560 | |
| Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- Spain is effectively bankrupt.
- June - Mary I of England joins her husband Philip II of Spain in his war against France.
- August 10 - Battle of St. Quentin - French forces under Marshal Anne de Montmorency are decisively defeated by the Spanish under Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy. Montmorency himself is captured, but Philip II refuses to press his advantage, and withdraws to the Netherlands.
- Emperor Ogimachi ascends to the throne of Japan
Births
- February 11 - John Uijtenbogaert Dutch remonstrant theologian.
- February 24 - Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
- May 31 - tsar Feodor I of Russia
- Abbas I (Shah of Persia)
Deaths
- June 11 - King John III of Portugal
- July 16 - Anne of Cleves, divorced fourth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England.
- November 19 - Bona Sforza, queen of Poland and a second wife of Sigismund I of Poland
- Emperor Go-Nara of Japan
- Mikael Agricola - finnish scholar
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