April 9 – Marcello Cervini degli Spannocchi is unanimously chosen as the successor to
Pope Julius III, who died on March 23, and takes the name of
Pope Marcellus II as the 222nd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He will reign for 22 days.[4]
May 15 – The
conclave opens with 42 of the 56 Roman Catholic cardinals to choose a successor to Pope Marcellus II, who had died on May 1.[5]
May 23 – Giovanni Pietro Carafa, Cardinal of Naples, is elected as the new Pope after Giacomo del Pozzo fails to obtain the necessary two-thirds approval.[6] Carafa, the 223rd Pope, takes the name
Pope Paul IV.[7]
August 24 – England's
Thomas Thirlby, the first and only Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norwich and Queen Mary's envoy to
Pope Paul IV, returns to London from bearing a papal bull that confirms Queen Mary's jurisdiction over Ireland.[9]
December 11 – Cardinal
Reginald Pole is made a cardinal-priest in the Roman Catholic Church and made the administrator of the
See of Canterbury in England,[14] though he will not become the new Archbishop of Canterbury until the following March 20.
Date unknown
Russia breaks a 60-year-old truce with
Sweden by attacking Finland.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 150–153.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN0-304-35730-8.
^Goldsmid, E. (ed.) (1886). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, collected by
Richard Hakluyt, Preacher, Vol. III: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part II: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid.
pp. 101-112.
April 9 – Marcello Cervini degli Spannocchi is unanimously chosen as the successor to
Pope Julius III, who died on March 23, and takes the name of
Pope Marcellus II as the 222nd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He will reign for 22 days.[4]
May 15 – The
conclave opens with 42 of the 56 Roman Catholic cardinals to choose a successor to Pope Marcellus II, who had died on May 1.[5]
May 23 – Giovanni Pietro Carafa, Cardinal of Naples, is elected as the new Pope after Giacomo del Pozzo fails to obtain the necessary two-thirds approval.[6] Carafa, the 223rd Pope, takes the name
Pope Paul IV.[7]
August 24 – England's
Thomas Thirlby, the first and only Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norwich and Queen Mary's envoy to
Pope Paul IV, returns to London from bearing a papal bull that confirms Queen Mary's jurisdiction over Ireland.[9]
December 11 – Cardinal
Reginald Pole is made a cardinal-priest in the Roman Catholic Church and made the administrator of the
See of Canterbury in England,[14] though he will not become the new Archbishop of Canterbury until the following March 20.
Date unknown
Russia breaks a 60-year-old truce with
Sweden by attacking Finland.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 150–153.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN0-304-35730-8.
^Goldsmid, E. (ed.) (1886). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, collected by
Richard Hakluyt, Preacher, Vol. III: North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part II: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid.
pp. 101-112.