- 1545
Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1545
January - June
*February 27 -Battle of Ancrum Moor : The Scots are victorious over superior English forces.July - December
*July 18 -Battle of the Solent : The fleets ofEngland andFrance battle to a draw. The "Mary Rose " sinks during the naval engagement.
*December 13 - TheCouncil of Trent officially opens (closes1563 ).Undated
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Battle of Kawagoe : Two branches of the Uesugi families are defeated by thelate Hōjō clan inJapan .
* During theMing Dynasty , a large failure of the harvest inHenan province,China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.
* Silver is discovered atPotosi ,Bolivia .Births
*March 2 -Thomas Bodley , English diplomat and library founder (d.1613 )
*April 2 -Elizabeth of Valois , queen ofPhilip II of Spain (d.1568 )
*April 28 -Yi Sun-sin , Korean naval leader (d.1598 )
*July 8 -Don Carlos of Spain , son ofPhilip II of Spain (d.1568 )
*August 1 -Andrew Melville , Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d.1622 )
*August 27 -Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (d.1592 )
*December 7 -Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , consort ofMary I of Scotland (d.1567 )
*"date unknown"
**George Bannatyne , collector of Scottish poems (d.1608 )
**John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (d.1588 )
**John Gerard , English botanist (d.1612 )
**William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (d.1604 )
**Azai Nagamasa , Japanese nobleman (d.1572 )
**Mashita Nagamori , Japanese warlord (d.1615 )
*"probable"
**Nicholas Breton , English poet and novelist (d.1626 )
**Joris Hoefnagel , Dutch painter and engraver (d.1601 )
**Lady Douglas Sheffield , lover ofRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d.1608 )Deaths
*January 16 -George Spalatin , German reformer (b.1484 )
*April 3 -Antonio de Guevara , Spanish chronicler and moralist (b.1481 )
*April 10 -Costanzo Festa , Italian composer (b.1495 )
*April 22 -Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (b.1496 )
*June 12 -Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (b.1517 )
*July 7 -Pernette Du Guillet , poet (b. c.1520 )
*August 24 -Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk , English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (b. c.1484 )
*August 27 -Piotr Gamrat , Polish Catholic archbishop (b.1487 )
*September -Hans Baldung , German artist (b.1480 )
*September 24 -Albert of Mainz , elector and archbishop of Mainz (b.1490 )
*October 18 -John Taverner , English composer (b. c.1490 )
*"date unknown"
**William Latimer , English churchman and scholar (b. c.1467 )
**Fernão Lopez , Portuguese renegade
**Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk , Englsh noblewoman (b. c.1477 )
**Stanisław Odrowąż , Polish noble (b.1509 )
**Sher Shah Suri , Indian ruler (b.1486 )
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