Today in History for Year 1549
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Months in Year 1549: January February March May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 16 of 16
Feb 10th - Tomé de Sousa appointed gov-gen of Brazil
Mar 29th - The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
Jun 9th - Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
Jun 9th - England enforces Act of Supremacy
Jul 12th - English boer army occupies Norwich
Jul 17th - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
Jul 27th - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan.
Aug 8th - France declares war on England
Aug 12th - French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
Aug 15th - Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
Aug 15th - Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
Aug 26th - Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
Aug 27th - Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
Sep 13th - Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
Oct 10th - Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
Oct 12th - John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 11 of 11
Feb 4th - Eustache du Caurroy, composer
Mar 11th - Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer
Mar 11th - Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
Jun 1st - Allesandre Spontone, composer
Jul 30th - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
Sep 1st - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc
Oct 1st - Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery
Nov 1st - Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
Nov 5th - Philippe du Plessis, France, author
Nov 5th - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
Dec 1st - Johan van der Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 9 of 9
Jan 19th - Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies
Jan 23rd - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
Jan 28th - Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80
Mar 20th - Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded
May 27th - Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
Jun 7th - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
Nov 10th - Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
Nov 10th - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
Dec 21st - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
