Historical Events In 1548
Saturday, 21 February 2026
Jan 23 Bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57. 


Mar 13 Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole. 


Mar 18 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet 


Mar 23 Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen. 


Apr 01 Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 


May 11 Great fire in Brielle. 


May 11 Start of great fire in Brielle. 


Jun 14 Carpentras, French composer. 


Jun 30 Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans 


Jul 16 La Paz, Bolivia is founded. 


Aug 06 Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies. 


Aug 15 Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France. 


Sep 05 Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36. 


Sep 07 Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, dies. 


Nov 16 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44. 


Dec 23 Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae). 


Dec 24 Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies 


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