1548

Year '1548' (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1548

January - June

July - December

Births

Deaths

Events of 1548

January - June

★ February 14 - At the Battle of Uedahara, firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.

July - December

★ July 7 - A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby five-year-old Mary I is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.

★ August 7 - Mary I of Scotland leaves for France.

★ October 31 - At the first ''sejm'' of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, deputies demand that the king renounce his wife Barbara Radziwiłł.

Births

★ January 5 - Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1617)

★ May - Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (died 1606)

★ September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616)

★ September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (died 1600)

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★ Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (died 1610)

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★ Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (died 1598)

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★ Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (died 1622)

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★ Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (died 1587)

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★ Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (died 1595)

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★ William Stanley, English soldier (died 1630)

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★ Simon Stevin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (died 1620)

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★ Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (died 1573)

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★ Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (died 1611)

★ ''probable''

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★ Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624)

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★ Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (died 1621)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 23 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (born 1490)

★ February 26 - Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin (born 1514)

★ March 23 - Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer

★ March 24 - Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland

★ April 1 - Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland (born 1467)

★ May 30 - Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (born 1474)

★ June 3 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (born 1468)

★ June 6 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (born 1500)

★ June 14 - Carpentras, French composer (born c. 1470)

★ September 7 - Catherine Parr, queen of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)

★ October 27 - Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (born 1485)

★ December 27 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (born 1502)
: ''See also .''