1546
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This article is about the year 1546.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1510s 1520s 1530s – 1540s – 1550s 1560s 1570s |
| Years: | 1543 1544 1545 – 1546 – 1547 1548 1549 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1546 MDXLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2299 |
| Armenian calendar | 995 ԹՎ ՋՂԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6296 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -298–-297 |
| Bengali calendar | 953 |
| Berber calendar | 2496 |
| English Regnal year | 37 Hen. 8 – 38 Hen. 8 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2090 |
| Burmese calendar | 908 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7054–7055 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿九日 (4182/4242-11-29) — to —
丙午年十二月初九日(4183/4243-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 1262–1263 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1538–1539 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5306–5307 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1602–1603 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1468–1469 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4647–4648 |
| Holocene calendar | 11546 |
| Iranian calendar | 924–925 |
| Islamic calendar | 952–953 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 15 (天文15年) |
| Korean calendar | 3879 |
| Minguo calendar | 366 before ROC 民前366年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2089 |
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Year 1546 (MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- June 7 – Treaty of Ardres, also known as the Treaty of Camp, is signed, resulting in peace between England and France.
[edit] July–December
- July 10 – The Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.
Tycho Brahe was born 15 october 1546
[edit] Date unknown
- 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 Spanish conquer the Yucatan.
- Rebellions in East Anglia break out against the Reformation.
- Potosí, in modern day Bolivia, is founded by the Spanish as a mining town. The silver mined from Huayna Potosí mountain in Potosi provides most of the wealth the Spanish empire would amass until its fall in the early 19th century.
[edit] 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
- 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)
[edit] 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, 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)
