Hôtel de Bourgogne (1548-1783) was built for the first authorized theater troupe in Paris, the Confrérie de la Passion (Brotherhood of the Passion)
In the year 1548, firearms are used for the first time on a battlefield in Japan (Feb 14), a marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France as five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France (Jul 7), La Paz in Bolivia is founded (Oct 20), the Burmese–Siamese War goes on, the first Finnish New Testament is printed in Stockholm, the first theater in Paris, Hôtel de Bourgogne, is built - and all these fine people were born:
1548 -xxxx Giordano Bruno* philosopher/cosmologer - Nola, Campania, Spanish Kingdom of Naples (52)
1548-0105 Francisco Suárez* Spanish Jesuit priest/philosopher/theologian - Granada, Kingdom of Granada (1617/69)
1548-0206 Francesco Panigarola* Franciscan preacher/controversialist/ Bishop of Asti - Milan, Papal States (1594/46)
1548-0313 Sasbout Vosmeer* Dutch apostolic vicar - Delft (1614/66)
1548-0317 Honda Tadakatsu* 本多 忠勝 samurai/daimyo who served Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan (1610/62)
1548-0318 Cornelis Ketel* painter/ poet/orator - Gouda, Dutch Republic (1616/68)
1548-0415 Pietro Cataldi* mathematician/ teacher - Bologna, Papal States (1626/77)
1548-05xx Karel van Mander* Flemish painter/poet/art historian - Meulebeke, Flanders (1606/58)
1548-0508 Giacomo Boncompagni* Italian feudal lord/the illegitimate son of Pope Gregory XIII - Bologna, Papal States (1612/64)
1548-0510 Antonio Priuli* the 94th Doge of Venice - Venice, Republic of Venice (1623/75)
1548-0708 Kim Jang-saeng* Neo-Confucian scholar/educator/politician - Korea (1631/83)
1548-0715 George III* Count of Erbach-Breuberg - Erbach, Hesse (1605/56)
1548-0826 Bernardino Poccetti* painter/ printmaker - Florence, Duchy of Florence (1612/64)
1548-0830 Mary Seymour* English princess - Sudeley Castle, Cloucestershire, England (date of death unknown)
1548-0902 Vincenzo Scamozzi* architect/ writer on architecture - Vicenza, Republic of Venice (1616/67)
1548-0907 Filippo Boncompagni* Cardinal/ nephew of Pope Gregory XIII - Bologna, Papal States (1586/37)
1548-0925 Benedikt Wurzelbauer* German sculptor/brass-founder - Nuremberg (1620/72)
1548-1004 Matsumae Yoshihiro* 松前 慶広 the first daimyō of Matsumae Domain in Ezo - Japan (1616/68)
1548-1031 Johannes Zölner* German rhetorician - Jena (1628/79)
1548-1127 Jacopo Mazzoni* Italian philosopher/friend of Galileo Galilei - Cesena (1598/49)
1548-1214 Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal* Galician nobleman/Viceroy of Naples - Cuéllar, Spaish Empire (1601/52)
1548-1230 David Pareus* German theologian/reformer - Frankenstein, Schlesien (1622/73)
Updated 6.2.2022
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