Important Historical Events of the year 1556, Year 1556 in History
List of 1556 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1556
What happened in the year 1556?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 16, 1556 | Philip II becomes King of Spain. |
| January 23, 1556 | The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. |
| February 14, 1556 | Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555,[4] Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral. |
| February 14, 1556 | Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire. |
| March 21, 1556 | On the day of his execution in Oxford, former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine." |
| June 27, 1556 | The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. |
| September 15, 1556 | Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain. |
| November 5, 1556 | Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar. |