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

Events of 1546

• The Spanish conquer the Yucatan.
• Peace is declared between England and France.
• 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 Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.
• Rebellions in East Anglia break out against the Reformation.

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
  • François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist (d. 1617)
  • 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)
  • Miko?aj VII Radziwi??, Polish magnate (d. 1565)
  • Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. 1599)
• probable
  • Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1617)

See also Category: 1546 births.

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, 4th 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)

See also Category: 1546 deaths.

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