1545

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
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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]

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 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).

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.

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)

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

^ ^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.

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