* 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.

* 1549 – Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima ( Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549 ).

# Francesco Maria II della Rovere ( 1549 – 1631 )-duchy abolished, title continued

* 1549 – Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre ( b. 1492 )

* 1468 – Pope Paul III ( d. 1549 )

Shimazu Takahisa ( 1514 – 1571 ), daimyo of Satsuma, gave a friendly reception to Francis on 29 September 1549, but in the following year he forbade the conversion of his subjects to Christianity under penalty of death ; Christians in Kagoshima could not be given any catechism in the following years.

* 1622 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator ( b. 1549 )

# Christine ( b. Dresden, 25 December 1505 – d. Kassel, 15 April 1549 ), married on 11 December 1523 to Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.

The first clear and credible reference to smallpox inoculation in China comes from Wan Quan's ( 1499 – 1582 ) Douzhen xinfa ( 痘疹心法 ) of 1549, which states that some women unexpectedly menstruate during the procedure, yet his text did not give details on techniques of inoculation.

* 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York.

* 1549 – Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1609 )

* 1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.

* 1547 – 1549: Abou el-Abbas Ahmed ben Mohammed

* 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.

* 1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian ( b. 1549 )

* 1549 – Anna of Austria, consort of Philip II of Spain ( d. 1580 )

Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word from Richard Roussat's of 1549 – 50.

In the Conclave of 1549 – 50 to elect a successor to Paul III, fifty-one cardinals, including Marcello Cervini, participated at the opening on 3 December 1549.

At the age of thirty-six he was summoned to Rome by Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 1549 ), under whom he held successive appointments as first judge of the capital, abbreviator, and vice-chancellor of the Campagna.

He was a lawyer, a graduate in 1544 of the University of Bologna, which was pre-eminent in jurisprudence, and became secretary to Cardinal Nicolò Ardinghelli before entering the service of Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, brother of the Duke of Parma and grandson of Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 1549 ), one of the great patrons of the time.

Attempting to defeat the Shah once and for all, Suleiman embarked upon a second campaign in 1548 – 1549.

* January 15, 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320-214 N106US ditches in the Hudson River, New York City after both engines are disabled by a birdstrike.

* Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte ( 1549 – 1626 ) ( 1588, 1623 )

Francesco Soriano ( Soriano nel Cimino, 1548 or 1549 – Rome, 19 July 1621 ) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance.

** Francesco Bassano the Younger ( 1549 – 1592 )

In connection with the Historic of Francesco Spiera of December 7, 1549, Vergerio directed a sharp reply to the bishop of Padua.

Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 30 July 1549 – 17 February 1609 ) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I.

* Francesco Bassano the Younger ( 1549 – 1592 )

Francesco Bassano the Younger ( January 26, 1549 – July 4, 1592 ), also called Francesco Giambattista da Ponte or Francesco da Ponte the Younger, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

* Francesco Soriano, Italian renaissance composer ( b. 1548 or 1549 )

In 1577 Borromeo finally consecrated the whole edifice as a new church, distinct from the old Santa Maria Maggiore and Santa Tecla ( which had been unified in 1549 after heavy disputes ).

* Antonio Maria di Savoia di Collegno, conclavist to Cristoforo Madruzzo during the papal conclave, 1549 – 1550

In 1549, he entered a Benedictine monastery, and the title pages of his published works indicate that he was a monk in the abbey of Monte Cassino at the time of their printing.

Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1549 to 1740.

* October 11 – Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter ( b. c. 1549 )

** Il Sodoma, Italian painter ( d. 1549 )

* October 29 – Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal ( d. 1549 )

Simpson's system of taxonomy, however, was far from the first ; taxonomies / descriptions for the classification of intersexuality were developed by Italian physician and physicist Fortuné Affaitati in 1549, French surgeon Ambroise Paré in 1573, French physician and sexology pioneer Nicolas Venette in 1687 ( under the pseudonym Vénitien Salocini ), and French Zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1832.

Il Sodoma ( 1477 – February 14, 1549 ) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi.

* Sodoma ( Italian, 1477 – 1549 )

He also published a translation of an Italian comedy, Gli Ingannati, under the title of Le Sacrifice ( 1543 ; republished as Les Abus, 1549 ), which had some influence on the development of French comedy ; and Paradoxes ( 1553 ), an imitation of the Paradossi of Ortensio Landi.

In December 1549, his mother-in-law, the Dowager of Westmorland, complained to him that he had established a garrison of Italian soldiers at Bywell, one her villages.

Pierre de Larivey ( 20 July 1549 – 12 February 1619 ) was a French dramatist of Italian origin.

* Benedetto Accolti the Younger ( 1497 – 1549 ), Italian cardinal, son of Michele Accolti, nephew of Pietro Accolti

His forces, mainly Italian mercenaries, were ejected by a combined Franco-Scottish force under General D ’ Essé ( André de Montalembert, Sieur de Essé ) on June 19 or 29, 1549.