Schmalkaldic War 1546–1547

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Habsburg Spain, Holy Roman Empire, Electorate of Saxony, Kingdom of Hungary, Kingdom of Bohemia, Lands of the Bohemian Crown ⚔ Schmalkaldic League, Electorate of Saxony, Hesse, Landgraviate of Hesse, Electorate of the Palatinate, Bremen (state), Free City of Lübeck, Brunswick-Lüneburg

Key battles

• Battle of Mühlberg (1547)

Who lived through the Schmalkaldic War

Well-known people alive during 1546–1547:

• Michelangelo (1475–1564) — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) — Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
• Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) — Spanish conquistador
• Akbar (1542–1605) — the third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
• Jacques Cartier (1492–1557) — Breton maritime explorer of North America (1491–1557)
• Suleiman the Magnificent (1494–1566) — the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) — French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
• Mimar Sinan (1490–1588) — 16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
• John Calvin (1509–1564) — French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)
• François Rabelais (1494–1553) — 16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
• Charles V (1500–1558) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)
• Nostradamus (1503–1566) — French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
• Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) — Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
• Francis Drake (1540–1596) — English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596)
• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) — King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)
• Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584) — Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594) — Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)
• El Greco (1541–1614) — Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
• Luís de Camões (1524–1580) — 16th-century Portuguese poet
• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598) — King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598
• Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) — Roman Catholic saint (1515-1582)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) — Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 (1542–1587)
• Titian (1490–1576) — Italian painter (c.1490–1576)
• Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) — Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
• Mary I (1516–1558) — Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558

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