1549 Totally Explained

Year 1549 (MDXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England, it was known as 'The Year of the Many-Headed Monster', because of the unusually high number of rebellions which racked the country.

Events of 1549

July - Agricultural workers stage Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia.
July 27 - Francis Xavier arrives in Japan.
November 4 - Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 proclaimed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
March 29 - The city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first capital, is founded.

Undated

Salvador is established as the first capital of Brazil.

Petrus Canisius starts the Counter-Reformation in Bavaria.

The first Book of Common Prayer is published in England.

The Prayer Book Rebellion

Births

July 30 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1609)

August 2 - Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1616)

November 5 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (died 1623)

November 30 - Sir Henry Savile, English educator (died 1622)

date unknown

Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese military commander (died 1632)
John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (died 1607)
Juan de Salcedo, Spanish conquistador (died 1576)
Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (died 1605)
Ogawa Suketada, Japanese warlord (died 1601)

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Deaths

January 28 - Elia Levita, Yiddish writer (born 1469)

February 14 - Il Sodoma, Italian painter (born 1477)

March 10 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat (born 1508)

April - Andrew Boorde, English traveller (born 1490)

April 15 - Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (born 1496)

November 10 - Pope Paul III (born 1468)

December 7 - Robert Kett, English rebel (executed)

December 21 - Marguerite of Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (born 1492)

date unknown

Daniel Bomberg, printer

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