What is 1552?
{{Year nav|1552}} {{Year in various calendars|1552}} {{Year article header|1552}} ==Events== * ==Births== * [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Edward Coke]], English business person (d. [[1634]]) * [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Agrippa d'Aubigné]], French poet and soldier (d. [[1630]]) * [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Melchior Klesl]], Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. [[1630]]) * [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Joost Bürgi]], Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. [[1632]]) * [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Gabriello Chiabrera]], Italian poet (d. [[1637]]) * [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1612]]) * [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Lavinia Fontana]], Italian painter (d. [[1614]]) * [[September 22]] &ndash; Tsar [[Vasili IV of Russia]] (d. [[1612]]) * [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Matteo Ricci]], Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. [[1610]]) * [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé]] (d. [[1588]]) * [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Simon Forman]], English occultist and astrologer (d. [[1611]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Hans von Aachen]], German mannerist painter (d. [[1615]]) ** [[Thomas Aufield]], English [[martyr]] (d. [[1585]]) ** [[Jean Bertaut]], French poet (d. [[1611]]) ** [[Miguel de Benavides]], Spanish clergyman (d. [[1605]]) ** [[Richard Hakluyt]], English writer, editor and translator (b. c. 1552 or [[1553]]; d. [[1616]]) ** [[Philemon Holland]], English translator (d. [[1637]]) ** [[Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma]], Spanish politician (d. [[1625]]) ** [[Dom Justo Takayama]], Japanese [[daimyo]] (d. [[1615]]) ** [[Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul]], French diplomat (d. [[1636]]) ** [[Jack Ward]], English pirate (d. [[1622]]) == Deaths == * [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Johann Cochlaeus]], German humanist (b. [[1479]]) * [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset]], English politician (b. [[1509]]) * [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Faber]], German composer (b. [[1500]]) * [[April 18]] &ndash; [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]], English historian (b. [[150