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

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Events of 1545

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1545

January - June

★ February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces.

July - December

★ July 18 - The ''Mary Rose'' sinks during the Battle of the Solent.

★ December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563).

Undated

★ Battle of Kawagoe - between two branches of Uesugi families and the late Hōjō clan in Japan.

Births

★ March 2 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (died 1613)

★ April 2 - Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)

★ April 28 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (died 1598)

★ July 8 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (died 1568)

★ August 1 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died 1622)

★ August 27 - Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1592)

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

★ ''date unknown''

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★ George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (died 1608)

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★ John Field, British Puritan clergyman and controversialist (died 1588)

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★ John Gerard, English botanist (died 1612)

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★ William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (died 1604)

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★ Asai Nagamasa, Japanese nobleman (died 1572)

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★ Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (died 1615)

★ ''probable''

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★ Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (died 1626)

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★ Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1601)

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★ Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1608)

Deaths

★ January 16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (born 1484)

★ April 3 - Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)

★ April 10 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (born 1495)

★ April 22 - Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (born 1496)

★ June 12 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1517)

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

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

★ August 27 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (born 1487)

★ September - Hans Baldung, German artist (born 1480)

★ September 24 - Albert of Mainz, elector and archbishop of Mainz (born 1490)

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

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Latimer, English churchman and scholar (born c. 1467)

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★ Fernão Lopez, Portuguese renegade

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★ Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, Englsh noblewoman (born c. 1477)

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★ Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (born 1509)

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★ Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (born 1486)