1548

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1510s  1520s  1530s  – 1540s –  1550s  1560s  1570s
Years:	1545 1546 1547 – 1548 – 1549 1550 1551

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1548 Media

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  December: The Burmese–Siamese War of 1548 starts.

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  William V, Duke of Bavaria

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  King Sigismund I the Old

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  Saint Juan de Zumarraga

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1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1548th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 548th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 16th century, and the 9th year of the 1540s decade. As of the start of 1548, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Births

• Giordano Bruno (d. 17 February 1600), Italian philosopher, priest, mathematician, and astronomer
• 8 July – Kim Jang-saeng (d. 3 August 1631), Korean scholar, politician, and educator

Deaths

• January 23 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
• February 26 – Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin (b. 1514)
• March 23 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese retainer
• March 24 – Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland
• April 1 – King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (b. 1467)
• May 30 – Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican Catholic saint (b. 1474)
• June 3 – Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
• June 6 – João de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
• June 14 – Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
• September 8 – Catherine Parr, Sixth and last Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
• October 27 – Johannes Dantiscus, Polish poet and Bishop of Warmia (b. 1485)
• December 27 – Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)