1545
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1545
January - June
- February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victorious over superior English forces.
July - December
- July 18 - The Mary Rose sinks during the Battle of the Solent.
- December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563).
Undated
- Battle of Kawagoe - between two branches of Uesugi families and the late Hōjō clan in Japan.
- During the Ming Dynasty, a large failure of the harvest in Henan province, China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drove up the price of wheat and forced many to flee their rural counties; those who stayed behind were forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.
- Silver is discovered at Potosi, Bolivia.
Births
- March 2 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (died 1613)
- April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)
- April 28 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (died 1598)
- July 8 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)
- August 1 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died 1622)
- August 27 - Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1592)
- December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (died 1567)
- date unknown
- George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
- John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588)
- John Gerard, English botanist (died 1612)
- William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (died 1604)
- Azai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman (died 1572)
- Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (died 1615)
- probable
- Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (died 1626)
- Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601)
- Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1608)
Deaths
- January 16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (born 1484)
- April 3 - Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)
- April 10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (born 1495)
- April 22 - Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (born 1496)
- June 12 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1517)
- July 7 - Pernette Du Guillet, poet (born c.1520)
- August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (born c. 1484)
- August 27 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (born 1487)
- September - Hans Baldung, German artist (born 1480)
- September 24 - Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (born 1490)
- October 18 - John Taverner, English composer (born c. 1490)
- date unknown
- William Latimer, English churchman and scholar (born c. 1467)
- Fernão Lopez, Portuguese renegade
- Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Englsh noblewoman (born c. 1477)
- Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (born 1509)
- Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (born 1486)
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