Major Events
- Mar 29 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded
- Jun 9 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
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First Christian missionary in Japan, Jesuit priest Francis Xavier reaches Japan but is not permitted to enter any port until August 15
Born in 1549
- Feb 4 Eustache du Caurroy, French Renaissance composer, born in Gerberoy, France (d. 1609)
- Mar 11 Henric Laurenszoon Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel), born in Amsterdam (d. 1612)
- Jun 1 Allesandre Spontone, Bolognese composer and Maestro Di Capella, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. c. 1590)
- Jul 30 Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, born in Florence (d. 1609)
- Sep 1 Charles Philip of Croÿ, Marquis of Havre, military general for the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1613)
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Who Died in 1549
- Jan 19 Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies
- Jan 23 Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
- Jan 28 Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80
- Mar 20 Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded
- May 27 Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
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