Albrecht Giese (IV.) (February 10, 1524 – August 1, 1580) was a councilman and diplomat of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland). February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events March 1, 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... Events March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. ... GdaÅ„sk (IPA: ; German: , Kashubian: , Late Latin: ; older English Dantzig; also other languages) is Polands sixth-largest city, and also her principal seaport and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. ...

Giese was born in Danzig, a member of the Hanseatic League, to the influential and wealthy merchant Patrician family Giese. Relatives of him were the merchant Georg Giese and the bishop Tiedemann Giese. Carta marina of the Baltic Sea region (1539). ... This is an article about the privileged class in ancient Rome. ... Tiedemann Giese (June 1, 1480 - October 23, 1550) of the Patrician family Giese from Gdańsk became bishop of Chełmno, then bishop of Warmia. ...

Albrecht studied at the Universities of Greifswald , Wittenberg and Heidelberg. As was the custom of the time for Hanseatic merchants, he toured Europe for several years to learn different languages after his formal studies, as was necessary for a long-distance trader. In the meantime, Giese had married in Danzig and returned there from his travels in 1564 and became a councilman. Over the next six years he took part as a Danzig delegate at several Hanseatic League meetings in Lübeck. Greifswald in Germany Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is located in Greifswald, Germany, between the Islands Rügen and Usedom, and is the second oldest university in Northern Europe. ... The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg. ... The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (German Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; also known as simply University of Heidelberg) is one of the most prestigious universities of Germany. ... Events March 27 — Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death June 22 — Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 — The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Conquistadors crossed the Pacific Spanish founded a colony... The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Luebeck. ...

In the 1560s, Polish king Sigismund II Augustus instituted a Maritime Commission to oversee the creation of a royal fleet which would have its main base at Danzig. Sigismund sought to have the old statutes of the cities of Danzig and Elbing (Elbląg) revoked and replaced by his own Statua Karnkowiana, which considerably limited the authority of the city council. The authorities of Danzig considered these initiatives a curtailing of their privileges, as the members of the commission as well as the privateers forming the nucleus of this Navy were exempt from the city's jurisdiction even in criminal cases. William Shakespeare is born. ... Sigismund II Augustus (Polish: , Lithuanian: ; 1 August 1520 — 7 July 1572) was the only son of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. ... ElblÄ…g (IPA: ; until 1946:German: ) is a city in northern Poland with 130,000 inhabitants. ... A privateer was a private ship (or its captain) authorized by a countrys government to attack and seize cargo from another countrys ships. ...

Open conflict between the Polish king and the city council broke out when the city council was arrested and sentenced to death. Negotiations between the city and the king took place in 1568/69, initially at Piotrków Trybunalski. Giese was a member of the delegation, led by the mayor of the city, Johann Brandes. Despite being subjected to severe pressure and incarceration for a year at Cracow, the delegation refused to submit to the king's terms and was eventually released in 1570 against a ransom of 100,000 guilders. Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ... Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... Piotrków Trybunalski is a town in central Poland with 81,200 inhabitants (2004). ... Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada miasta Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski Area 326,8 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 757,500 (2004 est. ... Events January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. ... Guilder is the English name for the Dutch Gulden. ...

In 1579, Giese was named royal burgrave of Danzig by the Polish king; a position that entailed the supervision of the judiciaries of the city. Events January 6 - The Union of Atrecht united the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain. ... Burgrave, the Eng. ...