Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s - 1540s - 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s

Years: 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 - 1548 - 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553

• Mary I of Scotland sent to France

• September 7 - Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England.
• Sigismund I of Poland