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| Gregorian calendar | 1548 MDXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2301 |
| Armenian calendar | 997 ԹՎ ՋՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6298 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1469–1470 |
| Bengali calendar | 955 |
| Berber calendar | 2498 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Edw. 6 – 2 Edw. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2092 |
| Burmese calendar | 910 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7056–7057 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4244 or 4184 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4245 or 4185 |
| Coptic calendar | 1264–1265 |
| Discordian calendar | 2714 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1540–1541 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5308–5309 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1604–1605 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1469–1470 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4648–4649 |
| Holocene calendar | 11548 |
| Igbo calendar | 548–549 |
| Iranian calendar | 926–927 |
| Islamic calendar | 954–955 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 17 (天文１７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1466–1467 |
| Julian calendar | 1548 MDXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3881 |
| Minguo calendar | 364 before ROC 民前364年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 80 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2090–2091 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1674 or 1293 or 521 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1675 or 1294 or 522 |
Year 1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[]
January–June[]
- February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan, and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.[1]
- April 1 – Sigismund II Augustus succeeds his father, Sigismund I the Old, as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- May 11 – The great fire in Brielle begins.
- June
- Ming Chinese naval forces commanded by Zhu Wan destroy the pirate haven of Shuangyu, frequented by Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese smugglers.
- John Dee starts to study at the Old University of Leuven.[2]
July–December[]
- July 7 – A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.[3]
- August 7 – Mary, Queen of Scots, leaves for France.
- October 20 – The city of La Paz, Bolivia, is founded.[4]
- October 31 – At the first sejm of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, deputies demand that the king renounce his wife Barbara Radziwiłł.
- December – Siam attacks Tavoy, beginning the Burmese–Siamese War of 1548.
Births[]
Francisco Suarez
- January 5 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, theologian and saint (d. 1617)
- February 6 – Francesco Panigarola, Italian bishop (d. 1594)
- March 13 – Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Apostolic Vicar (d. 1614)
- March 17 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (d. 1610)
- March 18 – Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (d. 1616)[5]
- April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
- May – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)[6]
- May 8 – Giacomo Boncompagni, illegitimate son of a Pope (d. 1612)
- May 10 – Antonio Priuli, Doge of Venice (d. 1623)
- July 8 – Kim Jang-saeng, Korean scholar and writer (d. 1631)
- July 15 – George III, Count of Erbach-Breuberg (1564–1605) (d. 1605)
- August 26 – Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (d. 1612)
- September 2 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
- September 7 – Filippo Boncompagni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)
- September 29 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
- October 4 – Matsumae Yoshihiro, Japanese daimyō of Ezochi (Hokkaidō) (d. 1616)
- November 27 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (d. 1598)
- December 14 – Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal, Grandee of Spain (d. 1601)
- December 30 – David Pareus, German theologian (d. 1622)
- approx. date – Ma Shouzhen, Chinese courtesan, painter, composer, and poet (d. 1604)
- date unknown
- Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (d. 1600)[7]
- Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1622)
- Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (d. 1595)
- William Stanley, English soldier (d. 1630)
- Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (d. 1573)
- Sidonia von Borcke, German noble and alleged witch (d. 1620)
- Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (d. 1611)
- probable
- Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (d. 1624)
- Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (d. 1621)
- Mariangiola Criscuolo, Italian painter (d. 1630)
- Simon Stevin, Flemish mathematician and engineer (d. 1620)
Deaths[]
King Sigismund I the Old
Saint Juan de Zumarraga
Joao de Castro
- January 9 – Matthäus Zell, German Lutheran pastor (b. 1477)
- January 23 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)[8]
- February 26 – Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (b. 1514)
- March 23 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
- March 24 – Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland
- April 1 – King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (b. 1467)
- June 3 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
- June 6 – João de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)[9]
- June 14 – Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
- July 4 – Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, German duke (b. 1503)
- July 29 – Gian Gabriele I of Saluzzo, Italian abbot, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1501)
- August 2 – Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz (b. 1507)
- September 5 – Catherine Parr, sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)[10]
- September 8 – John III of Pernstein, Bohemian land-owner, Governor of Moravia and Count of Kladsko (b. 1487)
- October 27 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (b. 1485)[11]
- November 16 – Caspar Creuziger, German humanist (b. 1504)
- December 27 – Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)
- date unknown
- Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (b. 1474)
- Chief Queen Sri Suriyothai, consort of King Maha Chakkrapat of Ayutthaya (killed in battle)
- Strongilah, Jewish Ottoman businesswoman.
References[]
- ^ Mitsuo Kure (November 25, 2014). Samurai: An Illustrated History. Tuttle Publishing. p. 454. ISBN 978-1-4629-1490-6.
- ^ Broecke, Steven Vanden (2003). The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology. Leiden: Brill. p. 168. ISBN 9789004131699.
- ^ Rosalind Kay Marshall (2001). Mary of Guise. NMS. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-901663-63-1.
- ^ Barbara A. Tenenbaum (1996). Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Gabeira to Mesta. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-684-19754-8.
- ^ George S. Keyes; Nora M. Heimann; Rosamond Hurrell (1986). A Collection Rediscovered: European Paintings from the Tweed Museum of Art. Minneapolis Institute of Art. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-912964-29-4.
- ^ Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Gemäldegalerie (1913). Guide to the Picture Gallery: Old Masters. p. 64.
- ^ Janet Podell; Steven Anzovin (1993). Old Worlds to New: The Age of Exploration and Discovery. Wilson. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-8242-0838-7.
- ^ International Musicological Society. Congress (1970). Report. Bärenreiter. p. 97.
- ^ Asiatic Society of Bombay (1969). Journal. p. 207.
- ^ Susan Bassnett (1988). Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective. Berg Publishers. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-85496-167-2.
- ^ Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (January 1, 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
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