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Events in October 1555 3
1487 – 1555Hugh Latimer (1487-1555)Died 16 October 1555, aged 68A former Bishop of Worcester and prominent English Reformation preacher, Latimer was burned at the stake in Oxford alongside Nicholas Ridley for heresy under Mary I. His reported final words encouraging Ridley became one of the most quoted lines of the English Reformation.
1500 – 1555Nicholas Ridley (1500-1555)Died 16 October 1555, aged 55Bishop of London and a key figure in shaping Anglican doctrine under Edward VI, Ridley was burned at the stake in Oxford together with Hugh Latimer for refusing to recant Protestant beliefs. He is counted among the Oxford Martyrs.
1555Charles V abdicates the NetherlandsFirst step in the emperor's retirement from ruleOn 25 October 1555 in Brussels, Charles V formally transferred sovereignty over the Seventeen Provinces to his son Philip. It was the opening act of a staged abdication that would see Charles relinquish the Spanish crown in 1556 and the imperial title in 1558.