1546

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

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

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 modern 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.

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
- Bikram Samwat	1602 – 1603
- 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

• 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.

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.