1548
year
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.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1548 MDXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2301 |
| Armenian calendar | 997 ԹՎ ՋՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6298 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1469–1470 |
| Bengali calendar | 955 |
| Berber calendar | 2498 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Edw. 6 – 2 Edw. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2092 |
| Burmese calendar | 910 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7056–7057 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4244 or 4184 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4245 or 4185 |
| Coptic calendar | 1264–1265 |
| Discordian calendar | 2714 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1540–1541 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5308–5309 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1604–1605 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1469–1470 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4648–4649 |
| Holocene calendar | 11548 |
| Igbo calendar | 548–549 |
| Iranian calendar | 926–927 |
| Islamic calendar | 954–955 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 17 (天文１７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1466–1467 |
| Julian calendar | 1548 MDXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3881 |
| Minguo calendar | 364 before ROC 民前364年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 80 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2090–2091 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1674 or 1293 or 521 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1675 or 1294 or 522 |
Births
change- 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
change- 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)