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

Years: 1546 1547 1548 1549 1550 - 1551 - 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556

• Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav )

• September 19 - King Henry III of France

• Oda Nobuhide - Japanese warlord. Father of Oda Nobunaga\n