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Years: 1542 1543 1544 - 1545 - 1546 1547 1548

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

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

1545 by topic

Arts and science

Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Events

• February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces
• December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563)
• Battle of Kawagoe - between two branches of Uesugi families and the late Hojo clan in Japan.

Births

• 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)
• December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (died 1567)
• George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
• Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (died 1626)
• Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (died 1592)
• John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588)
• John Gerard, English botanist (died 1612)
• Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601)
• Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, Sicilian anatomist (died 1580)
• Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish poet (died 1610)
• William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (died 1604)
• Azai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman
• Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord
• Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1608)

See also Category: 1545 births.

Deaths

• January 16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (born 1484)
• April 10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (born 1495)
• June 12 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1517)
• August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician
• August 27 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
• September 24 - Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (b. 1490)
• October 18 - John Taverner, English composer
• Hans Baldung, German artist (born 1480)
• Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)
• Fernão Lopez, Portuguese renegade
• Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (born 1509)

See also Category: 1545 deaths.