1549

Year 1549 (MDXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England, it was known as "The Year of the Many-Headed Monster", because of the unusually high number of rebellions which occurred in the country.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1549 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1549
MDXLIX
Ab urbe condita2302
Armenian calendar998
ԹՎ ՋՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6299
Balinese saka calendar1470–1471
Bengali calendar956
Berber calendar2499
English Regnal year2 Edw. 6  3 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar2093
Burmese calendar911
Byzantine calendar7057–7058
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4245 or 4185
     to 
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4246 or 4186
Coptic calendar1265–1266
Discordian calendar2715
Ethiopian calendar1541–1542
Hebrew calendar5309–5310
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1605–1606
 - Shaka Samvat1470–1471
 - Kali Yuga4649–4650
Holocene calendar11549
Igbo calendar549–550
Iranian calendar927–928
Islamic calendar955–956
Japanese calendarTenbun 18
(天文18年)
Javanese calendar1467–1468
Julian calendar1549
MDXLIX
Korean calendar3882
Minguo calendar363 before ROC
民前363年
Nanakshahi calendar81
Thai solar calendar2091–2092
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1675 or 1294 or 522
     to 
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1676 or 1295 or 523
Voyage of Xavier.

Events

The Book of Common Prayer is introduced in England.

JanuaryJune

  • January Burmese–Siamese War (1547–49): King Tabinshwehti of Burma begins his invasion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, which ends in retreat.
  • February 3 Burmese–Siamese War: Burmese viceroy Thado Dhamma Yaza I of Prome slays Sri Suriyothai, queen consort of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, on her war elephant, when she intervenes in battle to protect the life of her husband.
  • March 29 The city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first capital, is founded by Tome de Sousa.

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • Peter Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria.
  • The spire of Lincoln Cathedral in England is blown down,[5] leaving St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn, in Estonia as the World's tallest structure.
  • Although trade existed between the two beforehand, in this year the Portuguese begin to send regular seasonal maritime trade missions to Ming Dynasty China, at Sao João Island (also known as Shangchuan Island) near Macau.
  • Siege of Kajiki: firearms are used for the first time in a siege in Japanese history. (The previous year's Battle of Uedahara was the first battle in which they were used.)
  • Excerpta antiqua is published by Hervagius at Basel, Switzerland.
  • Maidstone Grammar School is founded in England by Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.[6]

Births

Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville
Duchess Sabine of Württemberg
Anne of Austria, Queen of Spain
  • January 26 Jakob Ebert, German theologian (d. 1614)
  • January 26 Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (d. 1592)
  • February 3 Louis of Valois, French prince (d. 1550)
  • February 4 Eustache Du Caurroy, French composer (d. 1609)
  • February 15 Barnim X, Duke of Pomerania (1569–1603) (d. 1603)
  • February 20 Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, last Duke of Urbino (d. 1631)
  • March 10 Francis Solanus, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1610)
  • March 11 Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel, Dutch writer (d. 1612)
  • April 5 Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, French princess (d. 1601)
  • April 13 Count Juraj IV Zrinski of Croatia (d. 1603)
  • June 15 Elizabeth Knollys, English noblewoman (d. 1605)
  • July 2 Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1581)
  • July 5 Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1627)
  • July 12 Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (d. 1587)
  • July 20 Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (d. 1619)
  • July 30 Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
  • August 2 Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1616)
  • August 10 Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, daughter of Margrave John of Küstrin (d. 1602)
  • September 1 Charles Philippe de Croÿ, Marquis d’Havré, Belgian noble and politician (d. 1613)
  • November 2 Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
  • November 5 Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
  • November 30 Sir Henry Savile, English educator (d. 1622)
  • December 9 Costanzo Antegnati, Italian composer, organist (d. 1624)
  • December 20 John Petre, 1st Baron Petre, English politician and baron (d. 1613)
  • December 24 Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian (d. 1617)[7]
  • date unknown
    • Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese military commander (d. 1632)
    • John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (d. 1607)
    • Juan de Salcedo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1576)
    • Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1605)
    • Ogawa Suketada, Japanese warlord (d. 1601)

Deaths

References

  1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 215–218. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. Rosen, Adrienne (2010). "Tudor Rebellions". In Tiller, Kate; Darkes, Giles (eds.). An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire. Chipping Norton: Oxfordshire Record Society. pp. 82–3. ISBN 978-0-902509-68-9.
  4. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 147–150. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  5. "Lincoln Cathedral History". Lincoln Cathedral. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  6. "About Us".
  7. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Kaspar Ulenberg" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  8. Hans Reuther (1957), "Dietrich, Veit", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 699–699
  9. "Paul III | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  10. A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre. Brill. 2013. p. 16. ISBN 9789004250505.
  11. Israel Zinberg (1972). A History of Jewish Literature: Italian Jewry in the Renaissance era. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-87068-240-7.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.