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Events on Monday 6 July 1553 1
1537 – 1553Edward VI (1537-1553)Died 6 July 1553, aged 15Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, became King of England at the age of nine and reigned under a series of regents through a period of rapid Protestant reform. He died of a lung ailment at Greenwich before reaching adulthood, having attempted to alter the succession in favor of Lady Jane Grey. His death triggered the succession crisis that brought Mary I to the throne.