History
1545
General
Population: 496 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include John Heywood The Four P's, Konrad von Gesner Biblioteca universalis, Benvenuto Cellini (autobiography)
Art includes Lorenzo Lotto "Apollo Sleeping", Titian "Pietro Aretino",
- Mathematics: Geronimo Cardano works out Scipione del Ferro's equations for third and fourth degree
Girolamo Cardono introduces negative numbers into European mathematics
- Religion: Start of Council of Trent – Counter-Reformation begins – reform under Jesuits
- Technology: Claude Garamond designs antique typography
- Deaths: Composer John Taverner, Duke of Orleans - thirs don of King Francis I, Historian Antonio de Guevara, Artist Hans Valdung-Grien
Americas
- Cuba: Typhus
- Peru: Potosí silver mines open for Spanish production
Europe
- General: Truce of Adrianople between Charles V, Ferdinand of Austria, and Suleiman I
- Italian States: Italy and Catholic reform
Stage comedians create a new type of improvised theatrical entertainment in northern Italy
Palladio creates Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza
First European botanical garden in Padua
Creation of Duchy of Parma in Italy
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Truce of Adrianople between Charles V, Ferdinand of Austria, and Suleiman I