1548

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Year 1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 14 – Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan, and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.
• April 1 – Sigismund II Augustus succeeds his father, Sigismund I the Old, as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

July–December

• July 7 – A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby 5-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.
• August 7 – Mary, Queen of Scots, leaves for France.
• October 20 – The city of La Paz, Bolivia, is founded.
• October 31 – At the first sejm of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, deputies demand that the king renounce his wife Barbara Radziwiłł.
• December – Siam attacks Tavoy beginning the Burmese–Siamese War 1548.

Date unknown

• The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates, while the Portuguese began regular trade missions to China in 1549, and the ban on maritime trade was fully lifted in 1567.
• John Dee starts to study at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Births

• January 5 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (d. 1617)
• March 17 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (d. 1610)
• April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
• May – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)
• September 2 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
• September 29 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
• November 27 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (d. 1598)
• date unknown
  • Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (d. 1600)
  • Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1622)
  • Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (d. 1595)
  • William Stanley, English soldier (d. 1630)
  • Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (d. 1611)
• probable
  • Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (d. 1624)
  • Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (d. 1621)
  • Simon Stevin, Flemish mathematician and engineer (d. 1620)

Deaths

• January 23 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
• February 26 – Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin (b. 1514)
• March 23 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
• March 24 – Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland
• April 1 – King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (b. 1467)
• May 30 – Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (b. 1474)
• June 3 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• June 6 – João de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
• June 14 – Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
• September 8 – Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
• October 27 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (b. 1485)
• December 27 – Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)

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