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| Years: 1546 1547 1548 - 1549 - 1550 1551 1552 | |
| Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- July - Kett's Rebellion
- Francis Xavier arrives in Japan.
- Salvador established, first capital of Brazil
- Petrus Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria
Births
- July 30 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1609)
- November 5 - Philippe de Mornay, French protestant writer (died 1623)
- Eustache du Caurroy, French composer
- Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (died 1625)
- Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese military commander (died 1632)
- Mikolaj Krzysztof Sierotka Radziwill, Polish nobleman (died 1616)
- John Rainolds, English divine and writer (died 1607)
- Henry Savile, English scholar and Provost of Eton (died 1622)
- Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (died 1605)
- Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (died 1601)
Deaths
- February 14 - Il Sodoma, Italian painter (born 1477)
- March 10 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (born 1508)
- April 15 - Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (born 1496)
- November 10 - Pope Paul III (born 1468)
- December 21 - Queen Marguerite of Navarre (born 1492)
- Daniel Bomberg, early printer of Hebrew language books
- Andrew Boorde, English traveller
- Robert Ket, English rebel
- Elia Levita, writer of Yiddish romances (born 1469)af:1549
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