1555 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 15th century16th century17th century
Decades: 1520s  1530s  1540s  – 1550s –  1560s  1570s  1580s
Years: 1552 1553 155415551556 1557 1558
1555 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1555
MDLV
Ab urbe condita2308
Armenian calendar1004
ԹՎ ՌԴ
Assyrian calendar6305
Balinese saka calendar1476–1477
Bengali calendar962
Berber calendar2505
English Regnal yearPh. & M. – 2 Ph. & M.
Buddhist calendar2099
Burmese calendar917
Byzantine calendar7063–7064
Chinese calendar甲寅(Wood Tiger)
4251 or 4191
    — to —
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4252 or 4192
Coptic calendar1271–1272
Discordian calendar2721
Ethiopian calendar1547–1548
Hebrew calendar5315–5316
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1611–1612
 - Shaka Samvat1476–1477
 - Kali Yuga4655–4656
Holocene calendar11555
Igbo calendar555–556
Iranian calendar933–934
Islamic calendar962–963
Japanese calendarTenbun 24 / Kōji 1
(弘治元年)
Javanese calendar1473–1475
Julian calendar1555
MDLV
Korean calendar3888
Minguo calendar357 before ROC
民前357年
Nanakshahi calendar87
Thai solar calendar2097–2098
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1681 or 1300 or 528
    — to —
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1682 or 1301 or 529

1555 (MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1555th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 555th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1550s decade. As of the start of 1555, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.