History
1557
General
Population: 506 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include The Sack of Newes is first English play censored, Thomas Tusser A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie
- Mathematics: Robert Recorde writes "Whetstone of Wit" as first English treatise on Algebra
- Deaths: Sebastian Cabot - son of John, King John III the Pious of Portugal,
Asia
- Burma: End of Shan states
- China: Portuguese trading base established at Macao
Europe
- General: Influenza epidemic hist Europe
Spanish state bankruptcy damages German and Antwerp bankers
Livonian War – dispute over succession to territories in the Balkans between Poland Russia Sweden and Denmark starts to 1582
Battle of St. Quentin - Spain and England defeat France
- England: First censored play "The Sack of Newes"
Gonville College at Cambridge split and refounded as Gonville and Caius Colleges
Repton School in Derbyshire founded
War declared on France
- France: State bankruptcy
- Italian States: Accademis di San Luca (for art) founded in Rome
- Portugal: Death of King John III the Pious of Portugal – grandson Sebastian I rules
- Russia: Freeze and famine
Invasion of Poland
- Spain: State bankruptcy
Plague outbreak