Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. [edit] Events of 1545 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated - Battle of Kawagoe: Two branches of the Uesugi families are defeated by the late Hōjō clan in Japan.
- During the Ming Dynasty, a large failure of the harvest in Henan province, China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.
- Silver is discovered at Potosi, Bolivia.
[edit] Births [edit] Deaths - January 16 – George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
- April 3 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (b. 1481)
- April 10 – Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. 1495)
- April 22 – Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1496)
- June 12 – Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1517)
- July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, poet (b. c. 1520)
- August 24 – Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (b. c. 1484)
- August 27 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
- September – Hans Baldung, German artist (b. 1480)
- September 24 – Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (b. 1490)
- October 18 – John Taverner, English composer (b. c. 1490)
- date unknown
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