Year 1557 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1557
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
- See also Category: 1557 births.
Deaths
- January 2 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
- January 8 - Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ("Albert the Warlike"), Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
- April 9 - Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. c. 1510)
- April 21 - Petrus Apianus, German astronomer (b. 1495)
- June 11 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
- July 8 (date of will) - Geoffrey Glyn, by his will founding Friars School, Bangor
- July 16 - Anne of Cleves, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
- August 1 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (b. 1490)
- September 1 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
- September 13 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
- September 27 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
- October 25 - William Cavendish, English courtier (b. 1505)
- November 19 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
- December 13 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499)
- date unknown
- See also Category: 1557 deaths.
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