1546: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Events

• Spanish conquest of Yucatan
• Peace between England and France
• Foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge by Henry VIII of England
• Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg

• Tycho Brahe begins to measure planetary orbits

• July 4 - Murat III, Ottoman Emperor (+ 1595)
• December 14 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer

• February 18 - Martin Luther, religious reformer
• March 1 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1513)
• Khair ad Din "Barbarossa", corsair ruler of Algiers