1545

Events of 1545

February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victorious over superior English forces.

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.

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

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