Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  - 1540s -  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1542 1543 1544 - 1545 - 1546 1547 1548

1545 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 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: The Scots are victorious over superior English forces.

July - December

• July 18 - Battle of the Solent: The fleets of England and France battle to a draw. The Mary Rose sinks during the naval engagement.
• December 13 - The Council of Trent officially opens (closes 1563).

Undated

• Battle of Kawagoe: Two branches of the Uesugi families are defeated by 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 drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties; those who stay behind are 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 (d. 1613)
• April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)
• April 28 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (d. 1598)
• July 8 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)
• August 1 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
• August 27 - Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1592)
• December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
• date unknown
  • George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (d. 1608)
  • John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (d. 1588)
  • John Gerard, English botanist (d. 1612)
  • William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (d. 1604)
  • Azai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1572)
  • Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (d. 1615)
• probable
  • Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (d. 1626)
  • Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (d. 1601)
  • Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1608)

Deaths

• January 16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
• April 3 - Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (b. 1481)
• April 10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. 1495)
• April 22 - Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1496)
• June 12 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1517)
• July 7 - Pernette Du Guillet, poet (b. c. 1520)
• August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (b. c. 1484)
• August 27 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
• September - Hans Baldung, German artist (b. 1480)
• September 24 - Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (b. 1490)
• October 18 - John Taverner, English composer (b. c. 1490)
• date unknown
  • William Latimer, English churchman and scholar (b. c. 1467)
  • Fernão Lopez, Portuguese renegade
  • Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Englsh noblewoman (b. c. 1477)
  • Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (b. 1509)
  • Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486)