Events of 1546

• The Spanish conquer the Yucatan.

• Peace is declared between England and France.

• Trinity College, Cambridge and Christ Church, Oxford are founded by Henry VIII of England.

• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg.

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

• The Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.

• Rebellions in East Anglia break out against the Reformation.

• Potosí, in mdoern day Bolivia is founded by the Spanish as a mining town. The silver mined from Huayna Potosí mountain in Potosi provides most of the wealth the spanish empire would amass until its fall in the early 19th century.

Births

• January 27 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)

• May 5 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)

• June 24 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610)

• July 4 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)

• December 14 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)

• date unknown

• *François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist (d. 1617)

• *William Barclay, Scottish jurist (d. 1608)

• *Luca Bati, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1608)

• *Philippe Desportes, French poet (d. 1606)

• *Thomas Digges, English astronomer (d. 1595)

• *Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1582)

• *Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York (d. 1628)

• *Mikołaj VII Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1565)

• *Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. 1599)

• probable

• *Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1617)

Deaths

• January 11 – Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)

• January 21 – Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)

• February 18 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)

• March 1 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1513)

• March 26 – Thomas Elyot, English diplomat and scholar (b. c. 1490)

• April 7 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1491)

• May 17 – Philipp von Hutten, German knight (b. 1511)

• May 29 – David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal (b. c. 1494)

• July 4 – Khair ad Din "Barbarossa", corsair ruler of Algiers (b. 1475)

• July 9 – Robert Maxwell, 4th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (b. c. 1493)

• July 16 – Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)

• August 1 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)

• August 3

• *Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)

• *Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)

• August 12 – Francisco de Vitoria, Renaissance theologian (b. 1492)

• November 1 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter (b. 1499)