Years: 1545 1546 1547 - 1548 - 1549 1550 1551

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

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

Events

• Mary I of Scotland sent to France

Births

• Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, occultist, and heretic, (burned at the stake) 1600
• Cornelis Ketel , Dutch painter
• Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)
• Francesco Soriano, Italian composer of the Roman School
• Simon Stevin, Dutch mathematician and engineer
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, renowned Spanish composer

Deaths

• March 23 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
• September 7 - Catherine Parr, queen of King Henry VIII of England
• Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1467)