1548

This article is about the year 1548.

Sigismund II Augustus, who succeeded his father, Sigismund I the Old, as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania on April 1 this year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1545 1546 1547 – 1548 – 1549 1550 1551

1548 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1548 MDXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2301
Armenian calendar	997 ԹՎ ՋՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6298
Bengali calendar	955
Berber calendar	2498
English Regnal year	1 Edw. 6 – 2 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2092
Burmese calendar	910
Byzantine calendar	7056–7057
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4244 or 4184     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4245 or 4185
Coptic calendar	1264–1265
Discordian calendar	2714
Ethiopian calendar	1540–1541
Hebrew calendar	5308–5309
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1604–1605
- Shaka Samvat	1470–1471
- Kali Yuga	4649–4650
Holocene calendar	11548
Igbo calendar	548–549
Iranian calendar	926–927
Islamic calendar	954–955
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 17 (天文１７年)
Julian calendar	1548 MDXLVIII
Korean calendar	3881
Minguo calendar	364 before ROC 民前364年
Thai solar calendar	2090–2091

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)
• February 6 – Francesco Panigarola, Italian bishop (d. 1594)
• March 13 – Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Apostolic Vicar (d. 1614)
• March 17 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (d. 1610)
• March 18 – Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (d. 1616)
• April 15 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
• May – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (d. 1606)
• May 8 – Giacomo Boncompagni, Illegitimate son of a Pope (d. 1612)
• May 10 – Antonio Priuli, Doge of Venice (d. 1623)
• July 8 – Kim Jang-saeng, Scholar and writer (d. 1631)
• July 15 – George III, Count of Erbach-Breuberg (1564–1605) (d. 1605)
• August 26 – Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (d. 1612)
• September 2 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
• September 7 – Filippo Boncompagni, Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)
• September 29 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
• October 4 – Matsumae Yoshihiro, daimyo of Ezochi (Hokkaidō (d. 1616)
• November 27 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (d. 1598)
• December 14 – Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal, Grandee of Spain (d. 1601)
• December 30 – David Pareus, German theologian (d. 1622)

• 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)