Years: 1545 1546 1547 - 1548 - 1549 1550 1551

Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• Mary I of Scotland sent to France

Births

• Francesco Soriano, Italian composer of the Roman School
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, renowned Spanish composer
• Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, occultist and heretic, burned at the stake in 1600
• Simon Stevin, Dutch mathematician and engineer
• Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter

Deaths

• March 23 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
• September 7 - Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England.
• Sigismund I of Poland

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