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Year 1545 (MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1545

January - June

February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor: The Scots are victorious over superior English forces.

July - December

July 18 - Battle of the Solent: The fleets of England and France battle to a draw. The Mary Rose sinks during the naval engagement.

December 13 - The Council of Trent officially opens (closes 1563).

Undated

Battle of Kawagoe: Two branches of the Uesugi families are defeated by the late Hōjō clan in Japan.

During the Ming Dynasty, a large failure of the harvest in Henan province, China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.

Silver is discovered at Potosi, Bolivia.

Births

March 2 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)

April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)

April 28 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (d. 1598)

July 8 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)

August 1 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)

August 27 - Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1592)

December 7 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)

date unknown

George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (d. 1608)
John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (d. 1588)
John Gerard, English botanist (d. 1612)
William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (d. 1604)
Azai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1572)
Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (d. 1615)

probable

Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (d. 1626)
Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (d. 1601)
Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1608)

Deaths

January 16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)

April 3 - Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (b. 1481)

April 10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. 1495)

April 22 - Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1496)

June 12 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1517)

July 7 - Pernette Du Guillet, poet (b. c. 1520)

August 24 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician and husband of Mary Tudor (b. c. 1484)

August 27 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)

September - Hans Baldung, German artist (b. 1480)

September 24 - Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (b. 1490)

October 18 - John Taverner, English composer (b. c. 1490)

date unknown

William Latimer, English churchman and scholar (b. c. 1467)
Fernão Lopez, Portuguese renegade
Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Englsh noblewoman (b. c. 1477)
Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (b. 1509)
Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486)

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