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World History Timelines

1546 To 1549

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1546

x - Japan Oda Nobunaga takes the name 'Saburô Nobunaga'.

x - Japan Yamanaka Shikanosuke's father, Mikawa no Kami Mitsuyuki, dies at age 27.

x - Japan Kuroda Kanbei is born at Himeji in Harima.

feb 14 - Martin Luther preached his final sermon, on Matthew 11:28, at Eisleben.

feb 18 - Martin Luther dies at 62. Luther was a monk whose attacks on the corruption within the Roman Catholic Church began the Protestant Reformation.

mar 00 - Japan Takeda Harunobu [Shingen] attacks Murakami Yoshikiyo's Toishi castle in Shinano, but is defeated at Uenohara.

may 00 - Japan Takeda Harunobu [Shingen] attacks Uchiyama castle in Shinano. The seige lasts 11 days, until the lord of the castle, Ooi Sadakiyo surrenders.

may 00 - Japan Hôjô Ujiyasu wins a decisive victory at Kawagoe Fort over the allied factions of the Uesugi family. Following this battle, the Hôjô are supreme in the Kanto region.

jun 26 - Emperor Charles V joined forces with Pope Paul III against Luther's followers.

jul 15 - The Schmalkaldic War began. Charles V began the war to put an end to the Schmalkaldic League.

aug 00 - Japan Ota Sukemasa takes Matsuyama Castle in Musashi in a night attack.

dec 14 - Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose), is born.d.1601

1547

x - Japan Oda Nobunaga participates in his first campaign, in Mikawa province.

x - Japan Nagao Kagetora [Uesugi Kenshin] defeats Nagao Harukage and assumes power in Echigo.

x - Japan Saitô Dôsan defeats an army under Oda Nobuhide at Kanoguchi in Owari.

jan 16 - Ivan IV 'the Terrible' or 'the Dread' or 'the Awesome' a.16 assumes his full powers and becomes the first tsar of Russia.u.1584_ List of Tsars

jan 27 - Henry VIII of Englandr.1509-1547 dies at 55.Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and divorced his wife, Catherine of Aragon, effectively beginning the Reformation in England.

jan 28 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England.

feb 03 - Ivan IV of Russia a.17 marries Anastasia Romanova.

feb 20 - King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII.

mar 11 - The Council of Trent reconvened in Bologna, Italy, to avoid the plague. The Council was called to condemn Protestantism through Church doctrine.

apr 24 - The Schmalkaldic War ended with Charles V's disbanding of the Schmalkaldic League.

may 24 - After a year of fighting throughout Germany, Charles V's army defeated the Lutheran army at the Battle of Muehlberg, essentially reclaiming Germany for the Holy Roman Empire.

jun 13 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman.

jun 21 - Great fire in Moscow.

sep 10 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5.

sep 10 - Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered.

1548

x - Japan Oda Nobuhide makes peace with Saitô Dôsan, and receives a daughter for marriage to Nobunaga.

x - Japan Imagawa Yoshimoto attacks Oda Nobuhide on behalf of Matsudaira Hirotada.

x - Japan Miyoshi Chokei defeats his chief rival in the Miyoshi, his uncle, Masanaga

apr 01 - Sigismund I of Poland a.81 dies. Although a devout Catholic, Sigismund protected Protestants and other non-Catholics from persecution.

jun 16 - As a result of the Augsburg Interim, the Adiaphoristic Controversy arose. The controversy dealt with the Emperor's demands that the Lutherans restore the Catholic mass, sacraments, and authority of the Pope. Article X of the Formula of Concord eventually settled the matter.

jun 30 - The Augsburg Interim was issued. The Interim was a document outlining the temporary truce between the Catholics and the Protestants.

jun 30 - Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans.

aug 15 - Mary queen of Scotland a.6 arrives in France.

sep 00 - Japan Takeda Shingen suffers a defeat at the hands of Murakami Yoshikiyo in the first Japanese battle in which guns are employed (in this case, by the Murakami and of Chinese manufacture)

sep 05 - Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36.

1549

x - Americas First printing press on the Continent

x - Japan Oda Nobuhide of Owari dies and is eventually succeded by Nobunaga.

x - Japan Matsudaira Hirotada of Mikawa is killed and is eventually succeded by [Tokugawa] Ieyasu. At this time, Ieyasu returns to Okazaki castle from imprisonment by Oda Nobuhiro.

x - Japan Miyoshi Chokei takes Miyake Castle from the Hosokawa, former masters of the Miyoshi.

x - Japan In the Siege of Kajiki, Shimazu Takahisa is the first samurai warlord to use European guns in action.

mar 20 - Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded.

jun 09 - England enforces Act of Supremacy.

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