1548 - Definition and Overview

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