1546

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s
Years:	1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549

1546 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2299
Armenian calendar	995 ԹՎ ՋՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6296
Balinese saka calendar	1467–1468
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 (Wood Snake) 4243 or 4036     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4244 or 4037
Coptic calendar	1262–1263
Discordian calendar	2712
Ethiopian calendar	1538–1539
Hebrew calendar	5306–5307
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1602–1603
- Shaka Samvat	1467–1468
- Kali Yuga	4646–4647
Holocene calendar	11546
Igbo calendar	546–547
Iranian calendar	924–925
Islamic calendar	952–953
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 15 (天文１５年)
Javanese calendar	1464–1465
Julian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Korean calendar	3879
Minguo calendar	366 before ROC 民前366年
Nanakshahi calendar	78
Thai solar calendar	2088–2089
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1672 or 1291 or 519     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1673 or 1292 or 520

December: founding of Trinity College

Year 1546 (MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• May 19 – The Siege of Kawagoe Castle ends in defeat for the Uesugi clan, in their attempt to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Late Hōjō clan in Japan.
• June 7 – The Treaty of Ardres (also known as the Treaty of Camp) is signed, resulting in peace between the kingdoms of England and France, ending the Italian War of 1542–1546.

July–December

• July 10 – The Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.
• November 4 – Christ Church, Oxford, is refounded as a college by Henry VIII of England under this name.
• December 19 – Trinity College, Cambridge, is founded by Henry VIII of England.

Date unknown

• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg.
• Michelangelo is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
• The Spanish conquest of Yucatán is completed.
• Potosí, in modern day Bolivia, is founded by the Spanish as a mining town. The silver mined from Huayna Potosí Mountain in Potosí provides most of the wealth on which the Spanish Empire is based, until its fall in the early 19th century.

Births

Tycho Brahe

• January 27 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
• February 1 – Mogami Yoshiaki, Japanese daimyo of the Yamagata domain (d. 1614)
• February 4 – Jakob Monau, Polish writer and linguist (d. 1603)
• February 14 – Johann Pistorius, German historian (d. 1608)
• March 16 – Francesco Barbaro, Italian diplomat (d. 1616)
• March 21 – Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish painter (d. 1611)
• March 25 – Giacomo Castelvetro, Italian writer (d. 1616)
• March 27 – Johannes Piscator, German theologian (d. 1625)
• March 29 – Anne d'Escars de Givry, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1612)
• April 1 – Nanbu Nobunao, Japanese daimyo (d. 1599)
• April 20 – Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1618)
• June 14 – Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, German count (d. 1610)
• June 24 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)
• June 29 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1561-1592) (d. 1617)
• July 4 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
• August 10 – Juliana of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dutch prince (d. 1588)
• August 13 – Jan Opaliński, Polish nobleman and Castellan of Rogozin (d. 1598)
• August 31 – Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, Czech lexicographer (d. 1599)
• September 6 – Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and politician (d. 1627)
• September 11 – Arild Huitfeldt, Danish historian (d. 1609)
• September 13 – Isabella Bendidio, Italian singer and noble in Renaissance court of Ferrara (d. 1610)
• October 5 – Rudolph Snellius, Dutch linguist and mathematician (d. 1613)
• October 5 – Cyriakus Schneegass, German hymnwriter (d. 1597)
• November 11 – Richard Madox, English explorer (d. 1583)
• 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)

Deaths

Martin Luther

Hayreddin Barbarossa

• January 11
  • Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1497)
  • Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)
• February 18 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
• February 23 – Francis, Count of Enghien, French military leader (b. 1519)
• 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 explorer (b. 1511)
• May 28 – Ottaviano de' Medici, Italian politician (b. 1484)
• May 29 – David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal (assassinated) (b. c. 1494)
• June 13 – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer (b. 1490)
• 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)