1546

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Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s 1520s 1530s – 1540s – 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years:	1543 1544 1545 – 1546 – 1547 1548 1549

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1546 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2299
Armenian calendar	995 ԹՎ ՋՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6296
Bahá'í calendar	−298 – −297
Bengali calendar	953
Berber calendar	2496
English Regnal year	37 Hen. 8 – 38 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2090
Burmese calendar	908
Byzantine calendar	7054–7055
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4242 or 4182 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4243 or 4183
Coptic calendar	1262–1263
Discordian calendar	2712
Ethiopian calendar	1538–1539
Hebrew calendar	5306–5307
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1602–1603
- Shaka Samvat	1468–1469
- Kali Yuga	4647–4648
Holocene calendar	11546
Igbo calendar	546–547
Iranian calendar	924–925
Islamic calendar	952–953
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 15 (天文１５年)
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Korean calendar	3879
Minguo calendar	366 before ROC 民前366年
Thai solar calendar	2089
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Year 1546 (MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

May 19 – Siege of Kawagoe Castle ends in a battle with a defeat for the Uesugi clan in their attempt to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Late Hōjō clan in Japan.
June 7 – Treaty of Ardres (also known as the Treaty of Camp) is signed, resulting in peace between the kingdoms of England and France, ending the Italian War of 1542–1546.^[1]

July 10 – The Schmalkaldic War, a political struggle between imperial forces under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League, begins.
December – Trinity College, Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII of England.^[2]

Christ Church, Oxford, refounded by Henry VIII of England under this name.
Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg.
Michelangelo is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The Spanish conquest of Yucatán is completed.
Potosí, in modern day Bolivia, is founded by the Spanish as a mining town. The silver mined from Huayna Potosí mountain in Potosí provides most of the wealth on which the Spanish Empire is based until its fall in the early 19th century.

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, 5th 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)

↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 215–218. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 147–150. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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