1545
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This article is about the year 1545.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1510s 1520s 1530s – 1540s – 1550s 1560s 1570s |
| Years: | 1542 1543 1544 – 1545 – 1546 1547 1548 |
| 1545 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1545 MDXLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2298 |
| Armenian calendar | 994 ԹՎ ՋՂԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6295 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -299–-298 |
| Bengali calendar | 952 |
| Berber calendar | 2495 |
| English Regnal year | 36 Hen. 8 – 37 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2089 |
| Burmese calendar | 907 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7053–7054 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲辰年十二月十九日 (4181/4241-12-19) — to —
乙巳年十一月廿八日(4182/4242-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1261–1262 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1537–1538 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5305–5306 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1601–1602 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1467–1468 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4646–4647 |
| Holocene calendar | 11545 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 545–546 |
| Iranian calendar | 923–924 |
| Islamic calendar | 951–952 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 14 (天文14年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 1545 MDXLV |
| Korean calendar | 3878 |
| Minguo calendar | 367 before ROC 民前367年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2088 |
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Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- February 27 – Battle of Ancrum Moor: The Scots are victorious over numerically superior English forces.[1]
- June 13 – Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez sets out to navigate the northern coast of New Guinea.
July–December [edit]
- July 18–19 – Battle of the Solent between English and French fleets. The engagement is inconclusive but on July 19 Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, sinks.[2]
- c. July 21 – Battle of Bonchurch: The English reverse an attempted French invasion of the Isle of Wight off the coast of England as part of the Italian Wars.[1]
- October – Siege of Kawagoe Castle begins as part of an unsuccessful attempt by the Uesugi clan to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Late Hōjō clan in Japan.
- December 13 – The Council of Trent officially opens (closes 1563).
Undated [edit]
- Battle of Sokhoista: The army of the Ottoman Empire defeats an alliance of Georgian dynasts.
- In Ming Dynasty China a large failure of the harvest in Henan province 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 at Potosí, Bolivia.
Births [edit]
- March 2 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)
- April 2 – Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)
- April 28 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (d. 1598)
- July 8 – Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip 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 of Mary, Queen of Scots (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 of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1608)
Deaths [edit]
- January 16 – George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
- February 12 or April 2 – Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (b. 1509)
- 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)
- May – Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, English noblewoman (b. c. 1477)
- May 22 – Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486)
- 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
References [edit]
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 147–150. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.