1549

This article is about the year 1549. For the number, see 1549 (number). For the flight, see US Airways Flight 1549.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1546 1547 1548 – 1549 – 1550 1551 1552

1549 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1549 MDXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2302
Armenian calendar	998 ԹՎ ՋՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6299
Bengali calendar	956
Berber calendar	2499
English Regnal year	2 Edw. 6 – 3 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2093
Burmese calendar	911
Byzantine calendar	7057–7058
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4245 or 4185     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4246 or 4186
Coptic calendar	1265–1266
Discordian calendar	2715
Ethiopian calendar	1541–1542
Hebrew calendar	5309–5310
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1605–1606
- Shaka Samvat	1471–1472
- Kali Yuga	4650–4651
Holocene calendar	11549
Igbo calendar	549–550
Iranian calendar	927–928
Islamic calendar	955–956
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 18 (天文１８年)
Julian calendar	1549 MDXLIX
Korean calendar	3882
Minguo calendar	363 before ROC 民前363年
Thai solar calendar	2091–2092

Voyage of Xavier.

Book of Common Prayer.

Year 1549 (MDXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England, it was known as "The Year of the Many-Headed Monster", because of the unusually high number of rebellions which occurred in the country.

Events

January–June

• January – Burmese–Siamese War (1547–49): King Tabinshwehti of Burma begins his invasion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. This ends in retreat.
• February 3 – Burmese–Siamese War: Burmese viceroy Thado Dhamma Yaza I of Prome slays Sri Suriyothai, queen consort of the Ayutthaya Kingdom on her war elephant when she intervenes in battle to protect the life of her husband.
• March 29 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first capital, is founded.

July–December

• June 9 – Book of Common Prayer introduced in English churches; Prayer Book Rebellion against it breaks out in the West Country.
• July – Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia, against land enclosures; rebellion in Oxfordshire against landowners associated with religious changes.
• July 27 – Francis Xavier arrives in Japan.
• August 8–9 – England and France declare war.
• August 17 – Battle of Sampford Courtenay in England: Prayer Book Rebellion quashed.
• August 26 – Battle of Dussindale in England: Kett's Rebellion quashed.
• November 4 – The Pragmatic Sanction is proclaimed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The Seventeen Provinces are declared inseparable.
• November 29 – The lengthy and large Papal conclave, 1549–50 goes into session in the Apostolic Palace in Rome to decide a successor to Pope Paul III.

Undated

• Peter Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria.
• The spire of Lincoln Cathedral in England is blown down leaving St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn, in Estonia as the World's tallest structure.
• Although trade existed between the two beforehand, in this year the Portuguese begins to send regular seasonal maritime trade missions to Ming Dynasty China at Sao João Island (also known as Shangchuan Island) near Macau.
• Excerpta antiqua published by Hervagius at Basel.

Births

• January 26 – Jakob Ebert, German theologian (d. 1614)
• January 26 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (d. 1592)
• February 3 – Louis of Valois, French prince (d. 1550)
• February 4 – Eustache Du Caurroy, French composer (d. 1609)
• February 15 – Barnim X, Duke of Pomerania (1569–1603) (d. 1603)
• February 20 – Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, last Duke of Urbino (d. 1631)
• March 10 – Francis Solanus, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1610)
• March 11 – Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel, Dutch writer (d. 1612)
• April 5 – Françoise d'Orléans-Longueville, French princess (d. 1601)
• April 13 – Juraj IV Zrinski, Count of Croatia (d. 1603)
• June 15 – Elizabeth Knollys, English noblewoman (d. 1605)
• July 2 – Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1581)
• July 5 – Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian Cardinal (d. 1627)
• July 12 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (d. 1587)
• July 20 – Pierre de Larivey, French dramatist of Italian origin (d. 1619)
• July 30 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
• August 2 – Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1616)
• August 10 – Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, daughter of Margrave John of Küstrin (d. 1602)
• September 1 – Charles Philippe de Croÿ, Marquis d’Havré, Belgian noble ans politician (d. 1613)
• October 1 – Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (d. 1626)
• October 17 – Denis Godefroy (d. 1622)
• November 1 – Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
• November 5 – Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
• November 30 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator (d. 1622)
• December 9 – Costanzo Antegnati, Italian composer, organist (d. 1624)
• December 20 – John Petre, 1st Baron Petre, English politician and baron (d. 1613)
• December 24 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian (d. 1617)

• date unknown
  • Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese military commander (d. 1632)
  • John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (d. 1607)
  • Juan de Salcedo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1576)
  • Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1605)
  • Ogawa Suketada, Japanese warlord (d. 1601)

Deaths

• January 28 – Elia Levita, Yiddish writer (b. 1469)
• February 3 – Chief Queen Sri Suriyothai, consort of King Maha Chakkrapat of Ayutthaya (killed in battle)
• February 14 – Il Sodoma, Italian painter (b. 1477)
• March 10 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat (b. 1508)
• April – Andrew Boorde, English traveller (b. 1490)
• April 15 – Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (b. 1496)
• November 10 – Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
• December 7 – Robert Kett, English rebel (executed)
• December 21 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
• date unknown – Daniel Bomberg, printer