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Birth 1546 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1546
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1546
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15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
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1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s |
| Years: |
1543 1544 1545 - 1546 - 1547 1548 1549 |
| 1546 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works
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Year 1546 (MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
- 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.
1546 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1546
MDXLVI |
| Ab urbe condita |
2299 |
| Armenian calendar |
995
ԹՎ ՋՂԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-298 – -297 |
| Berber calendar |
2496 |
| 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 |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1601 – 1602 |
| - 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 |
| Thai solar calendar |
2089 |
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- 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)
- Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1565)
- Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. 1599)
- probable
- Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1617)
- See also Category: 1546 births.
- 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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