The earliest comprehensive written list of Hebridean island names was undertaken by Donald Monro in 1549, which in some cases also provides the earliest written form of the island name.

In Donald Munro's A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland Called Hybrides of 1549, North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist are described as one island of Ywst ( Uist ).

In 1549, Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles wrote of the " south part of Ywst " and went on:

In 1549, Donald Monro wrote of " Tarandsay " that it was:

Writing in 1549, Donald Munro, High Dean of the Isles wrote of " Egge " that it was: " gude mayne land with ane paroch kirk in it, with mony solenne geis ; very gude for store, namelie for scheip, with ane heavin for heiland Galayis ".

Writing in 1549, Donald Munro, High Dean of the Isles wrote of " Thiridh " that it was: " ane mane laich fertile fruitful cuntrie ... All inhabite and manurit with twa paroche kirkis in it, ane fresh water loch with an auld castell.

Writing in 1549, Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles stated of " Ywst " that it was a fertile country full of high hills and forests on the east coast with five parish kirks.

* Monro, Sir Donald ( 1549 ) A Description Of The Western Isles of Scotland.

In 1549, Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles wrote of:

In 1549, Dean Monro wrote of the " little ile callit the yle of Molass, quherin there was foundit by Johne, Lord of the iles, ane monastry of friars, which is decayit.

It is unlikely that Canna ever formed part of the territories of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, which title became forfeit in 1493, as Monro reported of " Kannay " in 1549 that the island was a: " faire maine land, foure myle lange, inhabit and manurit, with paroche kirke in it, guid for corne, fishing and grassing, with a falcon nest in it, pertines to the Abbot of Colmkill ", although it " burned with fire " as part of the feud between Clanranald and Maclean of Duart in the late 16th century.

In 1549, Dean Monro wrote:

Writing in 1549, Dean Monro stated: " At the north end of Raarsay, be half myle of sea frae it, layes ane ile callit Ronay, mair then a myle in lengthe, full of wood and heddir, with ane havin for heiland galeys in the middis of it, and the same havein is guyed for fostering of theives, ruggairs, and reivairs, till a nail, upon the peilling and spulzeing of poure pepill.

Dean Monro gave the following description of Scalpay in 1549 :... a fair hunting forest, full of deer, with certain little woods and small towns, well inhabited and manured, with many strong coves, good for fishing, in heritage it pertains to Maclean of Duart.

In 1549, Dean Monro wrote of " Buitt " that it was: " very fertyle ground, namelie for aitts, with twa strenthes ; the ane is the round castle of Buitt, callit Rosay of the auld, and Borrowstone about it callit Buitt.

Dean Monro, of the Isles who wrote a description of the Western Isles in 1549, described the membership as consisting of four ranks:

Writing in 1549, Dean Monro wrote of " Skarbay " that between it and " Duray ":

Dean Monro makes no mention of Gometra or Ulva in his 1549 work A Description Of The Western Isles of Scotland but both are referred to briefly by John Monipennie c. 1612, stating of the latter that " about 300 paces from this island, lyeth Gomatra, two miles long and one mile broad ".

In 1549, Dean Monro wrote of " Skarbay " that between it and " Duray ": " ther runnes ane streame, above the power of all sailing and rowing, with infinit dangers, callit Corybrekan.

In the 13th century there may be references to the island as Raun-eyja and Raun-eyjum and Dean Munro writing in 1549 calls it Ronin.

One of the earliest accounts written about the Western Isles was by Dean Munro, who visited the islands in 1549.

The 1549 book was, from the outset, intended only as a temporary expedient, as Bucer was assured having met Cranmer for the first time in April 1549: ' concessions ... made both as a respect for antiquity and to the infirmity of the present age ' as he wrote.

He wrote the treatise, Vera Christianae pacificationis et Ecclesiae reformandae ratio in 1549, in which he described the doctrines that should be upheld, including justification by faith.

John Calvin, who had lost his own wife in 1549, wrote a letter of condolence.

King Edward wrote in his Chronicle that the 1549 risings began " because certain commissions were sent down to pluck down enclosures ".

In July 1549, Paget wrote to Somerset: " Every man of the council have misliked your proceedings ... would to God, that, at the first stir you had followed the matter hotly, and caused justice to be ministered in solemn fashion to the terror of others ...".

Margaret wrote to her father from Wressle Castle in March 1549, complaining that he had avoided meeting Lennox.

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.

Whether Apian ever received the promised money is uncertain ; in any case he wrote a letter to the emperor in 1549 asking him to finally pay the promised sum.

In 1549 Melanchthon, Luther's principal lieutenant, wrote against Copernicus, pointing to the theory's apparent conflict with Scripture and advocating that " severe measures " be taken to restrain the impiety of Copernicans.

He wrote an eye-witness account of the siege of Exeter that took place during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549.

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.

Between 1549, when he became a member of the Stationers ' Company, and 1551, when he was ordained, Crowley wrote eleven or twelve books, and edited, translated, or acted as printer or publisher of seven others ( see below, Crowley's status as a printer ).

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.

The first clear reference to smallpox inoculation was made by the Chinese author Wan Quan ( 1499 – 1582 ) in his Douzhen xinfa ( 痘疹心法 ) published in 1549.

A reference to what seems to be a sailor's hauling chant in The Complaynt of Scotland ( 1549 ) is a popularly cited example.

The last documented reference to him is in 1549 when he petitioned the Haarlem town council for permission to live in Hoorn so that he could complete an altarpiece there.

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.

In 1549 Munro noted that although the island " pertained " to Coll it " obeys instantlie " to the Macleans of Duart, a situation that continued for some time.

From 1549 the island began to be fortified as a defence against the French and Spanish, with barracks for 300 men being built on the island in the late 16th century.

The Prior of Pittenweem passed the island to Patrick Learmonth of Dairsie, Provost of St Andrews in 1549.

The ruler of Basra extended his power to Qatif in 1524 but ultimately in 1549 the Ottomans took over the whole region, building forts at Qatif and ' Uqair, though they could not expel the Portuguese from the island of Bahrain.