Today in History for Year 1545

Months in Year 1545: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 9 of 9

Feb 13th - Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
Mar 15th - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
Mar 24th - German Parliament opens in Worms
Apr 12th - French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
Jul 19th - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
Jul 21st - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
Aug 26th - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
Sep 8th - English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland
Dec 13th - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 11 of 11

Jan 17th - Antonio Pace, composer
Feb 24th - Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578)
Mar 2nd - Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat/scholar
Apr 28th - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
May 1st - Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist
Jul 8th - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II
Aug 1st - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
Aug 27th - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
Oct 19th - Giovanale Ancina, composer
Dec 5th - Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet
Dec 7th - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 11 of 11

Jan 16th - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
Feb 19th - Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
Apr 10th - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
Jun 19th - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
Jul 12th - Maria Manuela van Portugal, niece of Spanish king Philip II, dies
Jul 19th - George Carew, English admiral, drowns
Jul 19th - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
Aug 27th - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
Sep 24th - Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch of Mainz, dies at 55
Oct 18th - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55
Nov 28th - Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded