1546

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.

Births

* 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)

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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)

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