1549

This article is about the year 1549. For the flight, see US Airways Flight 1549.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1546 1547 1548 – 1549 – 1550 1551 1552

1549 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1549 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1549 MDXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2302
Armenian calendar	998 ԹՎ ՋՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6299
Bahá'í calendar	-295–-294
Bengali calendar	956
Berber calendar	2499
English Regnal year	2 Edw. 6 – 3 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2093
Burmese calendar	911
Byzantine calendar	7057–7058
Chinese calendar	戊申年十二月初三日 (4185/4245-12-3) — to — 己酉年十二月十三日 (4186/4246-12-13)
Coptic calendar	1265–1266
Ethiopian calendar	1541–1542
Hebrew calendar	5309–5310
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1605–1606
- Shaka Samvat	1471–1472
- Kali Yuga	4650–4651
Holocene calendar	11549
Iranian calendar	927–928
Islamic calendar	955–956
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 18 (天文18年)
Korean calendar	3882
Minguo calendar	363 before ROC 民前363年
Thai solar calendar	2092

Voyage of Xavier.

Book of Common Prayer.

Year 1549 (MDXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England, it was known as "The Year of the Many-Headed Monster", because of the unusually high number of rebellions which occurred in the country.

Events

January–June

• January – King Tabinshwehti of Burma begins his invasion of Ayutthaya in the Burmese–Siamese War 1548
• March 29 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first capital, is founded.

July–December

• July – Agricultural workers stage Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia.
• July 27 – Francis Xavier arrives in Japan.
• November 4 – The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 is proclaimed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The Seventeen Provinces are declared inseparable.

Date unknown

• Petrus Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria.
• The first Book of Common Prayer is published in England.
• The Prayer Book Rebellion breaks out in England.
• Excerpta antiqua published by Hervagius at Basel.
• Although trade existed between the two beforehand, in this year the Portuguese begins to send regular seasonal maritime trade missions to Ming Dynasty China at Sao João Island (also known as Shangchuan Island) near Macau.
• Burmese invasion of Ayutthaya ends in retreat.

Births

• July 12 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (d. 1587)
• July 30 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
• August 2 – Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1616)
• November 5 – Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
• November 30 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator (d. 1622)
• date unknown
  • Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese military commander (d. 1632)
  • John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (d. 1607)
  • Juan de Salcedo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1576)
  • Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1605)
  • Ogawa Suketada, Japanese warlord (d. 1601)

Deaths

• January 28 – Elia Levita, Yiddish writer (b. 1469)
• February 3 – Chief Queen Sri Suriyothai, consort of King Maha Chakkrapat of Ayutthaya (killed in battle)
• February 14 – Il Sodoma, Italian painter (b. 1477)
• March 10 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat (b. 1508)
• April – Andrew Boorde, English traveller (b. 1490)
• April 15 – Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (b. 1496)
• November 10 – Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
• December 7 – Robert Kett, English rebel (executed)
• December 21 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
• date unknown – Daniel Bomberg, printer