1559

1559 (MDLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.

1559 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1559 MDLIX
Ab urbe condita	2312
Armenian calendar	1008 ԹՎ ՌԸ
Assyrian calendar	6309
Balinese saka calendar	1480–1481
Bengali calendar	966
Berber calendar	2509
English Regnal year	1 Eliz. 1 – 2 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2103
Burmese calendar	921
Byzantine calendar	7067–7068
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4255 or 4195     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4256 or 4196
Coptic calendar	1275–1276
Discordian calendar	2725
Ethiopian calendar	1551–1552
Hebrew calendar	5319–5320
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1615–1616
- Shaka Samvat	1480–1481
- Kali Yuga	4659–4660
Holocene calendar	11559
Igbo calendar	559–560
Iranian calendar	937–938
Islamic calendar	966–967
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 2 (永禄２年)
Javanese calendar	1478–1479
Julian calendar	1559 MDLIX
Korean calendar	3892
Minguo calendar	353 before ROC 民前353年
Nanakshahi calendar	91
Thai solar calendar	2101–2102
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 1685 or 1304 or 532     — to — ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1686 or 1305 or 533

Events

• January 15 – Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• March 23 – Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia, defending his lands against the invasion of Nur ibn Mujahid, Sultan of Harar, is killed in battle. His brother Menas succeeds him as king.
• April 3 – Peace of Cateau Cambrésis – France makes peace with England and Spain. France gives up most of its gains in Italy (including Savoy), keeping only Saluzzo, but keeps the three Lorraine bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, and the formerly English town of Calais.
• July 10 – Francis II becomes King of France following the death of his father, Henry II in a jousting accident.
• End of the Italian Wars.
• The Decameron expurgated.
• A royal edict in France makes heresy punishable by death.
• Elizabeth I establishes the Church of England, with the Act of Uniformity 1559 and the Act of Supremacy 1559.