Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1543 1544 1545 – 1546 – 1547 1548 1549

1546 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1546 (MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1546

• The Spanish conquer the Yucatan.
• Peace is declared between England and France.
• Trinity College, Cambridge and Christ Church, Oxford are founded by Henry VIII of England.
• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.
• The Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.
• Rebellions in East Anglia break out against the Reformation.
• Potosí, in mdoern day Bolivia is founded by the Spanish as a mining town. The silver mined from Huayna Potosí mountain in Potosi provides most of the wealth the spanish empire would amass until its fall in the early 19th century.

[edit] Births

1546 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2299
Armenian calendar	995 ԹՎ ՋՂԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-298 – -297
Bengali calendar	953
Berber calendar	2496
Buddhist calendar	2090
Burmese calendar	908
Byzantine calendar	7054 – 7055
Chinese calendar	乙巳年十一月廿九日 (4182/4242-11-29) — to — 丙午年十二月初九日 (4183/4243-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1262 – 1263
Ethiopian calendar	1538 – 1539
Hebrew calendar	5306 – 5307
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1601 – 1602
- Shaka Samvat	1468 – 1469
- Kali Yuga	4647 – 4648
Holocene calendar	11546
Iranian calendar	924 – 925
Islamic calendar	952 – 953
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 15 (天文15年)
Korean calendar	3879
Thai solar calendar	2089
v • d • e

• January 27 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
• May 5 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)
• June 24 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)
• July 4 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
• December 14 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)
• date unknown
  • François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist (d. 1617)
  • William Barclay, Scottish jurist (d. 1608)
  • Luca Bati, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1608)
  • Philippe Desportes, French poet (d. 1606)
  • Thomas Digges, English astronomer (d. 1595)
  • Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1582)
  • Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York (d. 1628)
  • Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1565)
  • Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. 1599)
• probable
  • Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1617)

See also Category: 1546 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 11 – Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)
• January 21 – Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
• February 18 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
• March 1 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1513)
• March 26 – Thomas Elyot, English diplomat and scholar (b. c. 1490)
• April 7 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1491)
• May 17 – Philipp von Hutten, German knight (b. 1511)
• May 29 – David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal (b. c. 1494)
• July 4 – Khair ad Din "Barbarossa", corsair ruler of Algiers (b. 1475)
• July 9 – Robert Maxwell, 4th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (b. c. 1493)
• July 16 – Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
• August 1 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
• August 3
  • Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
  • Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
• August 12 – Francisco de Vitoria, Renaissance theologian (b. 1492)
• November 1 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter (b. 1499)

See also Category: 1546 deaths.