Events

• Spanish conquest of Yucatan
• Peace between England and France
• Foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge by Henry VIII of England
• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg

Science

Architecture

• Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica.

Births

• January 27 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1608)
• May 5 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (died 1623)
• June 24 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (died 1610)
• July 4 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (died 1595)
• December 14 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (died 1601)
• François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist (died 1617)
• William Barclay, Scottish jurist (died 1608)
• Luca Bati, Italian Baroque composer (died 1608)
• Philippe Desportes, French poet (died 1606)
• Thomas Digges, English astronomer (died 1595)
• Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1617)
• Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese nobleman (died 1582)
• Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York (died 1628)
• Mikolaj VII Radziwill, Polish magnate (died 1565)
• Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and anatomist (died 1599)

See also Category: 1546 births.

Deaths

• January 21 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1491)
• February 18 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (born 1483)
• March 1 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (born 1513)
• March 26 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat and scholar
• May 29 - David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal
• July 16 - Anne Askew, English protestant (burned at the stake) (born 1521)
• August 1 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (born 1506)
• August 3 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (born 1509)
• August 3 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (born 1484)
• November 1 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter (born 1499)
• Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor
• Philipp von Hutten, German knight (born 1511)
• Khair ad Din "Barbarossa", corsair ruler of Algiers (born 1475)
• Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1491)
• Francisco de Vitoria, Renaissance theologian (born 1492)

See also Category: 1546 deaths.

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