John Heywood
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
John Heywood
after Unknown artist
woodcut, 1556
6 3/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. (162 mm x 104 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D24986
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- John Heywood (1497?-1580?), Known as 'The old English epigrammatist'. Sitter in 3 portraits.
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Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, is denounced as a heretic and burned at the stake in Oxford.Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
Art and science
The German physician and mineralogist Georg Agricola publishes De re metallica (On the Nature of Metals), the first systematic treatise about the mining and smelting of metals. It will remain the authoritative text on the subject for 250 years.International
Abdication of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. His brother Archduke Ferdinand of Austria becomes Holy Roman Emperor and his son Philip of Spain, husband of Queen Mary I, succeeds to the throne of Spain as Philip II.Akbar becomes Mughal Emperor of India defeating the Afghans at the Battle of Panipat.
The most devastating earthquake in history occurs in China's Shaanxi Province; an estimated 830,000 people are killed.
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