1548

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1545 1546 1547 – 1548 – 1549 1550 1551

1548 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Contents 1 Events of 1548 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1548

January–June

• February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan, and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.
• December – Siamese attack Tavoy beginning the Burmo-Siamese War of 1548

July–December

• July 7 – A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby 5-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.
• August 7 – Mary, Queen of Scots, 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.

Undated

• The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates, while the Portuguese began regular trade missions to China in 1449, and the ban on maritime trade was fully lifted in 1567.
• Sigismund II of Poland starts to rule.

Births

1548 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1548 MDXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2301
Armenian calendar	997 ԹՎ ՋՂԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-296 – -295
Bengali calendar	955
Berber calendar	2498
Buddhist calendar	2092
Burmese calendar	910
Byzantine calendar	7056 – 7057
Chinese calendar	丁未年十一月廿一日 (4184/4244-11-21) — to — 戊申年十二月初二日 (4185/4245-12-2)
Coptic calendar	1264 – 1265
Ethiopian calendar	1540 – 1541
Hebrew calendar	5308 – 5309
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1604 – 1605
- Shaka Samvat	1470 – 1471
- Kali Yuga	4649 – 4650
Holocene calendar	11548
Iranian calendar	926 – 927
Islamic calendar	954 – 955
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 17 (天文17年)
Korean calendar	3881
Thai solar calendar	2091

• January 5 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (d. 1617)
• May – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)
• September 2 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
• September 29 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
• date unknown
  • Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (d. 1600)
  • Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (d. 1610)
  • Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (d. 1598)
  • Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1622)
  • Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (d. 1587)
  • Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (d. 1595)
  • William Stanley, English soldier (d. 1630)
  • Simon Stevin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (d. 1620)
  • Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (d. 1611)
• probable
  • Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (d. 1624)
  • Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (d. 1621)

See also Category: 1548 births.

Deaths

• January 23 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
• February 26 – Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin (b. 1514)
• March 23 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
• March 24 – Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland
• April 1 – King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (b. 1467)
• May 30 – Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (b. 1474)
• June 3 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• June 6 – Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
• June 14 – Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
• September 8 – Catherine Parr, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
• October 27 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (b. 1485)
• December 27 – Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)

See also Category: 1548 deaths.