1545

Years:
1542 1543 1544 - 1545 - 1546 1547 1548
Decades:
1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces
December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563)
Battle of Kawagoe - between two branches of Uesugi families and the Late Hojo clan in Japan.

March 2 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (died 1613)
April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)
April 28 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (died 1598)
July 8 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)
August 1 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died 1622)
December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (died 1567)
George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)
Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (died 1626)
Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (died 1592)
John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588)
John Gerard, English botanist (died 1612)
Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601)
Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, Sicilian anatomist (died 1580)
Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish poet (died 1610)
William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (died 1604)
Azai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman
Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord
Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1608)