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1553 succession crisis
The 1553 succession crisis: Edward VI's Devise for the Succession excluded Catholic Mary Tudor for Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed 10 July 1553 and deposed 19 July when Mary's household affinity, popular support, and council defection won.
1556 Shaanxi earthquake
1556 Shaanxi earthquake (Jiajing Great Earthquake, 华县地震): deadliest recorded earthquake, ~830,000 named deaths, struck Weihe Basin, Shaanxi on 23 January 1556; Huashan and Weinan normal faults, intensity XI, magnitude ~8.
156 Xanthippe
156 Xanthippe (A875 WA, Chinese 悍妇星) is a large dark C/Ch-type main-belt asteroid, about 143 km across, discovered by Johann Palisa at Pola on 22 November 1875, rotating in 22.13 hours.
156/Silence
156/Silence is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metalcore band formed in 2015, known for atmospheric, chaotic metalcore. Albums include Irrational Pull (2020), People Watching (2024), and From a Distance (2026, Pure Noise Records).
1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg
The 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg, also called the Nuremberg UFO sighting, was a dawn sky display described in an illustrated broadsheet printed by Hans Glaser.
1561 Picerno earthquake
The 1561 Picerno earthquake, centered in the Vallo di Diano on 19 August 1561, was the most destructive of three strong shocks in the southern Apennines that summer.
1561 Zhongwei earthquake
The 1561 Zhongwei earthquake was a magnitude 7.25 to 7.3 earthquake that struck east of Zhongwei in Ningxia, northern China, during the Ming dynasty, killing about 1,000 people.
1562 Bahia smallpox epidemic
The 1562 Bahia smallpox epidemic was the first great smallpox outbreak recorded in colonial Brazil, killing tens of thousands of Indigenous people along the Bahian coast in 1562 and 1563.
1564 Ligurian earthquake
The 1564 Ligurian earthquake, also called the Nice earthquake, struck the County of Nice in July 1564, killing several hundred people in the Vésubie valley towns of La Bollène, Roquebillière, and Belvédère.
15651 Tlepolemos
15651 Tlepolemos, provisional designation 9612 P-L, is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 24 kilometers across that shares Jupiter's orbit, discovered by the Palomar-Leiden survey.
1566 Icarus
1566 Icarus (1949 MA) is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid, the first asteroid detected by radar (1968), with a 2.273-hour spin, 1.44 km diameter, perihelion 0.187 au, and a possible extinct-comet nature.
15663 Periphas
15663 Periphas is a high-inclination Jovian Trojan asteroid in the L4 swarm, named for the Aetolian hero Periphas, killed by Ares in the Trojan War, with a retrograde 9.92-hour rotation.
1568 eruption of Savo
The 1568 eruption of Savo was a VEI 3 eruption of Savo volcano in the Solomon Islands, its first recorded eruption, which killed the island's roughly 1,000 inhabitants.
1568 Xian earthquake
The 1568 Xian earthquake was a magnitude-7 earthquake that struck northeast of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, on May 25, 1568, during the Ming dynasty, killing about 1,000 people.
157 Dejanira
157 Dejanira (衫女星) is a ~20 km main-belt asteroid discovered 1 December 1875 at Marseilles by Alphonse Borrelly; a = 2.5796 au, e = 0.1979, i = 12.16°, rotation period 15.825 hr, albedo 0.173.
1570 eruption of Mombacho
The 1570 eruption of Mombacho was a flank collapse and debris avalanche at Nicaragua's Mombacho volcano that buried an indigenous village on its south side, killing about 400 people.
1570 Old Concepcion earthquake
The 1570 Old Concepcion earthquake was a magnitude 8.3 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed Concepción, then at present-day Penco, Chile, on 8 February 1570, the first major earthquake in Chile's written record.
1575 Valdivia earthquake
The 1575 Valdivia earthquake was a magnitude 8.5 megathrust earthquake that struck southern Chile on 16 December 1575, destroying several Spanish colonial cities and generating a destructive tsunami.
1576 Polish–Lithuanian royal election
The 1576 Polish–Lithuanian royal election, the second free election held after Henry of Valois fled, ended in a double election of Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiellon against Maximilian II, resolved by his death in 1576.
1577 Tengchong earthquake
The 1577 Tengchong earthquake was a magnitude 6.75 earthquake that struck Tengchong, Yunnan, China, in March 1577, one of the largest recorded in the region.
158 Koronis
158 Koronis is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Viktor Knorre on 4 January 1876 and the namesake of the Koronis S-type asteroid family at 2.82–2.95 AU; its Koronis2 subfamily (7.6 Myr) is a leading source of H chondrite meteorites.
1582
1582: the year Pope Gregory XIII's Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian in Catholic Europe, skipping October 5-14. Also the Raid of Ruthven, University of Edinburgh founding, Oda Nobunaga's death at Honnoji, and Shakespeare's marriage license.
1583 Antilochus
1583 Antilochus is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid in the Greek camp at the L4 point, about 110 kilometers wide and named for a son of Nestor.
1586 eruption of Kelud
The 1586 eruption of Kelud was a VEI 5 explosive eruption of the Kelud stratovolcano in East Java, Indonesia, and its largest recorded eruption, killing about 10,000 people.
1586 Ise Bay earthquake
The 1586 Ise Bay earthquake, known in Japanese as the Tensho earthquake, was a large earthquake that struck central Japan in 1586, killing about 8,000 people.
1587, A Year of No Significance
1587, A Year of No Significance (万历十五年) is a 1981 work of popular history by Ray Huang, arguing that an uneventful year of the Wanli reign reveals the Ming dynasty's structural decline.
159 Aemilia
159 Aemilia (A876 BA), large C/Ch-type Hygiea-family main-belt asteroid, ~125-132 km, orbit 3.11 AU every 5.48 years, rotation 24.48 h, density ~2.7 g/cm³, possible ~194 km satellite.
15913 Telemachus
15913 Telemachus, provisional designation 1997 TZ27, is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid in the Greek camp, discovered at La Silla in 1997 and named for the son of Odysseus.
1593 transported soldier legend
The 1593 transported soldier legend is a folk tale of a Manila guard who woke up in Mexico City on October 23, 1593, after falling asleep on duty.
1595 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz
The 1595 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz was the largest recorded eruption of the Colombian stratovolcano, a VEI 4 event on March 12, 1595, whose lahars down the Gualí and Lagunillas rivers killed 636 people.