Year 1547 (MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, a Catechism (, Simple Words of Catechism), is published in Königsberg by Martynas Mažvydas. January 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death for treason in England. January 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia. January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI, as King of England. February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. March 31 – King Francis I of France dies at the Château de Rambouillet and is succeeded by his eldest surviving son Henry II (on his 28th birthday) as King of France. April 4 – Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, secretly marries Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley. April 24 – Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League. July–December August 13 – The Duchy of Brittany unites with the Kingdom of France. September 10 Battle of Pinkie Cleugh: An English army under the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, defeats a Scottish army under James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the Regent. The English seize Edinburgh. Conspirators led by Ferrante Gonzaga murder Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and son of the Pope, and hang his body from a window of his palace in Piacenza. Date unknown Huguenots increasingly immigrate to the English county of Kent, especially Canterbury, from France. The Chambre Ardente is established in Paris for trying heretics. Work on construction of the Château de Chambord, in the Loire Valley, for Francis I of France, ceases. John Dee visits the Low Countries, to study navigation with Gemma Frisius. Edward VI of England outlaws execution by boiling. Births January 15 – Duchess Hedwig of Württemberg, by marriage countess of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1590) January 20 – Laurence Bruce, Scottish politician (d. 1617) January 24 – Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Austrian Archduchess (d. 1578) February 8 – Girolamo Mattei, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1603) February 18 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Syrian Arab co-founder of the Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621) February