1549

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 writer (died 1623)
• 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 scholar and Bible translator (died 1607)
• Juan de Salcedo, Spanish conquistador (died 1576)
• Henry Savile, English educator (died 1622)
• Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (died 1605)
• Ogawa Suketada, Japanese warlord (died 1601)

Deaths

• February 14 - Il Sodoma, Italian painter (born 1477)
• March 10 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat (born 1508)
• April 15 - Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (born 1496)
• November 10 - Pope Paul III (born 1468)
• December 21 - Marguerite of Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (born 1492)
• Daniel Bomberg, printer
• Andrew Boorde, English traveller
• Robert Ket, English rebel
• Elia Levita, Yiddish writer (born 1469)