1545

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)