1546

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

Events

January–June

• May 19 – Siege of Kawagoe Castle ends in a battle with a defeat for the Uesugi clan in their attempt to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Late Hōjō clan in Japan.
• June 7 – Treaty of Ardres (also known as the Treaty of Camp) is signed, resulting in peace between the kingdoms of England and France, ending the Italian War of 1542–1546.^[1]

July–December

• July 10 – The Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.
• December – Trinity College, Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII of England.^[2]

Date unknown

• Christ Church, Oxford, refounded by Henry VIII of England under this name.
• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg.
• Michelangelo is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
• The Spanish conquest of Yucatán is completed.
• Potosí, in modern day Bolivia, is founded by the Spanish as a mining town. The silver mined from Huayna Potosí mountain in Potosí provides most of the wealth on which the Spanish Empire is based until its fall in the early 19th century.

Births

• January 27 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
• February 4 – Jakob Monau, Polish writer and linguist (d. 1603)
• February 14 – Johann Pistorius, German historian (d. 1608)
• March 16 – Francesco Barbaro, Italian diplomat (d. 1616)
• March 21 – Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish painter (d. 1611)
• March 25 – Giacomo Castelvetro, Italian writer (d. 1616)
• March 27 – Johannes Piscator, German theologian (d. 1625)
• March 29 – Anne d'Escars de Givry, Catholic cardinal (d. 1612)
• April 1 – Nanbu Nobunao, Daimyo (d. 1599)
• April 20 – Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, Catholic cardinal (d. 1618)
• May 5 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)
• June 14 – Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (d. 1610)
• June 24 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)
• June 29 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1561-1592) (d. 1617)
• July 4 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
• August 10 – Juliana of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dutch prince (d. 1588)
• August 13 – Jan Opaliński, Polish nobleman and Castellan of Rogozin (d. 1598)
• August 31 – Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, Czech lexicographer (d. 1599)
• September 6 – Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and politician (d. 1627)
• September 11 – Arild Huitfeldt, Danish historian (d. 1609)
• September 13 – Isabella Bendidio, singer and noble in Renaissance court of Ferrara (d. 1610)
• October 5 – Rudolph Snellius, Dutch linguist and mathematician (d. 1613)
• October 5 – Cyriakus Schneegass, Hymnwriter (d. 1597)
• November 11 – Richard Madox (d. 1583)
• December 14 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)
• date unknown
  • 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)

Deaths

Martin Luther

• 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, 5th 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)

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