1546

1546 (MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1546th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 546th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1540s decade. As of the start of 1546, 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:	1543 1544 1545 – 1546 – 1547 1548 1549

1546 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2299
Armenian calendar	995 ԹՎ ՋՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6296
Balinese saka calendar	1467–1468
Bengali calendar	953
Berber calendar	2496
English Regnal year	37 Hen. 8 – 38 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2090
Burmese calendar	908
Byzantine calendar	7054–7055
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4242 or 4182     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4243 or 4183
Coptic calendar	1262–1263
Discordian calendar	2712
Ethiopian calendar	1538–1539
Hebrew calendar	5306–5307
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1602–1603
- Shaka Samvat	1467–1468
- Kali Yuga	4646–4647
Holocene calendar	11546
Igbo calendar	546–547
Iranian calendar	924–925
Islamic calendar	952–953
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 15 (天文１５年)
Javanese calendar	1464–1465
Julian calendar	1546 MDXLVI
Korean calendar	3879
Minguo calendar	366 before ROC 民前366年
Nanakshahi calendar	78
Thai solar calendar	2088–2089
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 1672 or 1291 or 519     — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 1673 or 1292 or 520

Events

• The Anglo-French War ends
• The Book of Apocrypha is added in the Roman Catholic church

Births

• December 14 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Digges, English astronomer (d. 1595)

Deaths

• February 18 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)