1546

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

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Events of 1546

Births

Deaths

Events of 1546

★ Spanish conquer the Yucatan.

★ Peace between England and France.

★ The Trinity College, Cambridge is 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.

Births

★ January 27 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1608)

★ May 5 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (died 1623)

★ June 24 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (died 1610)

★ July 4 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (died 1595)

★ December 14 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (died 1601)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist (died 1617)

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★ William Barclay, Scottish jurist (died 1608)

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★ Luca Bati, Italian Baroque composer (died 1608)

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★ Philippe Desportes, French poet (died 1606)

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★ Thomas Digges, English astronomer (died 1595)

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★ Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese nobleman (died 1582)

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★ Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York (died 1628)

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★ Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (died 1565)

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★ Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and anatomist (died 1599)

★ ''probable''

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★ Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1617)
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Deaths

★ January 11 - Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (born c1471)

★ January 21 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1491)

★ February 18 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (born 1483)

★ March 1 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (born 1513)

★ March 26 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat and scholar (born c1490)

★ April 7 - Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1491)

★ May 17 - Philipp von Hutten, German knight (born 1511)

★ May 29 - David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal (born c1494)

★ July 4 - Khair ad Din "Barbarossa", corsair ruler of Algiers (born 1475)

★ July 16 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (born 1521)

★ August 1 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (born 1506)

★ August 3

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★ Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (born 1509)

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★ Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (born 1484)

★ August 12 - Francisco de Vitoria, Renaissance theologian (born 1492)

★ November 1 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter (born 1499)
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