* 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 – Francesco Maria Del Monte, Italian diplomat ( d. 1627 )

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

* 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.

** Thomas Stephens, Jesuit missionary ( b. c. 1549 )

* 1549 Jesuit missionaries led by Xavier arrive in Japan and built a base in Kyushu.

The first registration of musical activity in Brazil comes from the activities of two Jesuit priests in 1549.

In 1549 missionary Francis Xavier started a Jesuit mission in Japan.

* 1549 ( Tenbun 18, 3rd day of the 7th month ): Jesuit Catholic priest Francis Xavier arrives in Japan at Kagoshima.

* Thomas Stephens ( Jesuit ) ( c. 1549 – 1619 ), early writer in Konkani

The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549, and soon afterwards met with Ōtomo Sōrin, shugo of Bungo and Buzen provinces, who would later be described by Xavier as a " king " and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1578.

In 1549, Mažvydas was appointed a priest in Ragainė, in the present-day town of Neman.

The day after Whit Sunday 1549, a priest at Sampford Courtenay was persuaded to read the old mass.

From 1549 to 1563 famous Lithuanian writer and translator ( He wrote first book in Lithuanian language " Catechismusa Prasty Szadei " (" The Simple Words of Catechism ")) Martynas Mažvydas was priest and Archdiacon of Ragainė.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

According to a 1549 letters of F. Balthasar Gago in Goa, it was the only book that Francis read or studied.

Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but he was not permitted to enter any port his ship arrived at until 15 August, when he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū.

Christianity had an impact on Japan, largely through the efforts of the Jesuits, led first by the Navarrese Saint Francis Xavier ( 1506 – 1552 ), who arrived in Kagoshima in southern Kyūshū in 1549.

* 1549: The Catholic missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan

* Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, 1549 – 1560

Starting in 1549, with the arrival of Francis Xavier at Kagoshima, a large missionary campaign, led by the Society of Jesus, began to shake Japan's social structures.

* Saint Francis Solanus ( 1549 – 1610 ), Spanish Franciscan missionary to South America

The village of Ōe, along with the Sakitsu in Kawaura-machi to the south, were both visited by Christian missionaries in the wake of St. Francis Xavier's mission to Japan in 1549.

He wrote De institutione bene vivendi per exempla sanctorum, a moralist tractate of Biblical inspiration which he managed to publish in 1506 in Venice ; this work influenced St Francis Xavier, and it was claimed by one of Francis ' associates in 1549 to be the only book that he read during his missionary work.

This changed, however, in 1549, the 18th year of Tenbun, when a missionary Francis Xavier landed in the country.

The Catholic church in Tsuwano itself is dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier, who visited Japan as a missionary in 1549 – 50, and is located on its mainstreet.

For example, when the missionary Francis Xavier visited Kagoshima Prefecture in 1549, he recorded that " the Japanese drink arak made from rice [...] but I have not seen a single drunkard.

* Margaret of Angoulême, Duchess of Berry ( 1492 – 1549 ), daughter of Charles, Count of Angoulême and only sister of Francis I, King of France.

* Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 also called Margaret of Angoulême ), elder sister of Francis I of France, married Henry II of Navarre

In 1549, he welcomed St. Francis Xavier.

It was the first university in Japan that fulfilled the hopes of St. Francis Xavier, who came to Japan in 1549 to spread Christianity.

* Francis I ( 1549 – 1561 ; also duke of Nevers )