1548

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

• September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616)
• September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626)
• Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624)
• Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (burned at the stake) 1600 (died 1600)
• Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (died 1610)
• Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (died 1606)
• Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (died 1598)
• Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (died 1622)
• Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (died 1587)
• Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (died 1621)
• Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (died 1595)
• William Stanley, English soldier (died 1630)
• Simon Stevin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (died 1620)
• Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1617)
• Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (died 1573)
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (died 1611)

See also Category: 1548 births.

Deaths

• January 23 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (born 1490)
• March 23 - Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
• June 3 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (born 1468)
• June 6 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
• June 14 - Carpentras, French composer
• September 7 - Catherine Parr, queen of Henry VIII of England
• December 27 - Francesco Spiera, Italian protestant jurist (b. 1502)
• Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (born 1474)
• Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (born 1485)
• King Sigismund I of Poland (born 1467)

See also Category: 1548 deaths.