Year 1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1548

January - June

• February 14 - Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan, and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.

July - December

• July 7 - A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby 5-year-old Mary I is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.
• August 7 - Mary I of Scotland leaves for France.
• October 31 - At the first sejm of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, deputies demand that the king renounce his wife Barbara Radziwi??.

Undated

• The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates, while the Portuguese began regular trade missions to China in 1449, and the ban on maritime trade was fully lifted in 1567.
• Sigismund II of Poland starts to rule.

Births

• January 5 - Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (d. 1617)
• May - Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)
• September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
• September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
• date unknown
  • Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (d. 1600)
  • Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (d. 1610)
  • Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (d. 1598)
  • Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1622)
  • Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (d. 1587)
  • Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (d. 1595)
  • William Stanley, English soldier (d. 1630)
  • Simon Stevin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (d. 1620)
  • Sait? Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (d. 1611)
• probable
  • Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (d. 1624)
  • Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (d. 1621)

See also Category: 1548 births.

Deaths

• January 23 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
• February 26 - Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin (b. 1514)
• March 23 - Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
• March 24 - Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland
• April 1 - King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (b. 1467)
• May 30 - Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (b. 1474)
• June 3 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• June 6 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
• June 14 - Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
• September 7 - Catherine Parr, queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
• October 27 - Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (b. 1485)
• December 27 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)

See also Category: 1548 deaths.

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