1548

1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year beginning on a Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Map of New Spain in 1548

Events

• January 20: Juan de Tolosa together with Diego de Ibarra, Cristóbal de Oñate and Baltasar Temiño de Bañuelos made the formal foundation of the city of Zacatecas.
• October 20: Spanish explorer Alonso de Mendoza founded the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz.
• Spain - Ignacio de Loyola - Spiritual Exercises.
• The Inca Empire (Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina) is completely dissolved under the Spanish domain.
• Tena Foundation (Cundinamarca)

Births

• January 5: Francisco Suárez, Spanish theologian (f. 1617)
• August 26: Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (f. 1612)
• 2 September: Vincenzo Scamozzi, Renaissance architect at the end of the centuryXVI (f. 1616)
• Giordano Bruno, Italian theologian October 7
• Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer.

Deaths

• May 30: Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin; lay and indigenous Mexican.
• June 3: Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish religious (n. 1468)
• 7 September: Catherine Parr, Queen of England (n. 1512)