1548

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s
Years:	1545 1546 1547 - 1548 - 1549 1550 1551

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Year 1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1548

February 14 - At the Battle of Uedahara, firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami Yoshikiyo.

July 7 - A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby five-year-old Mary I is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.
August 7 - Mary I of Scotland leaves for France.
October 31 - At the first sejm of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, deputies demand that the king renounce his wife Barbara Radziwiłł.

The Ming Dynasty government of China issues a decree banning all foreign trade and closes down all seaports along the coast; these Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with Japanese pirates, while the Portuguese began regular trade missions to China in 1449, and the ban on maritime trade was fully lifted in 1567.
Sigismund II of Poland starts to rule.

January 5 - Francisco Suárez, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1617)
May - Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (died 1606)
September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616)
September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626)
date unknown
- Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (died 1600)
- Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (died 1610)
- Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (died 1598)
- Oda Nagamasu, Japanese nobleman (died 1622)
- Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (died 1587)
- Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (died 1595)
- William Stanley, English soldier (died 1630)
- Simon Stevin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (died 1620)
- Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (died 1573)
- Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (died 1611)
probable
- Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624)
- Francesco Soriano, Italian composer (died 1621)

See also Category: 1548 births.

See also Category: 1548 deaths.af:1548