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

* 1549: The Catholic missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan

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

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.

Portuguese ships began arriving in Japan in 1543, with Catholic missionary activities in Japan beginning in earnest around 1549, mainly by Portuguese-sponsored Jesuits until Spanish-sponsored mendicant orders, such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, gained access to Japan.

In 1549, he joined the naval fleet of the first Portuguese Governor-General Tomé de Sousa ( 1502 – 1579 ), following a request by King D. João III to the Society of Jesus, to start the missionary work of converting the Amerindians, who were heathen in the eyes of the Catholic Church, of building churches and religious seminars, and of educating the colonists.

Saint Francis Solanus, O. F. M., () ( 10 March 1549 – 14 July 1610 ) was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor ( the Franciscans ), who is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

* 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 )

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

The most famous of these is the Villa d ' Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1549 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este and which was richly decorated with an ambitious program of frescoes by famous painters of late Roman Mannerism, such Livio Agresti ( a member of the " Forlì painting school ") or the Zuccari brothers.

The colonization process in the area was started by Martín Galeano who founded the village of Vélez on July 3, 1539 and Pedro de Ursúa and Ortún Velasco founded the village of Pamplona ( now part of the Norte de Santander Department ) in 1549.

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

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

In 1549 he visited Rome on a two-year diplomatic mission, and again in 1566.

* The Christian Century in Japan 1549 – 1650 C. R.

Ogawa Suketada ( 小川 祐忠 ; 1549 – 1601 ) was a daimyo ( warlord ) in feudal Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods.

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

In 1544, in spite of some opposition, he founded Königsberg University, where he appointed his friend Andreas Osiander to a professorship in 1549.

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

The 1552 and later editions of the Book of Common Prayer omitted the form of anointing given in the original ( 1549 ) version in its Order for the Visitation of the Sick, but most twentieth-century Anglican prayer books do have anointing of the sick.

This remarkable text, originally written in Latin, is extant only in the 1549 translation of Bishop John Ponet.

1549 translation of Bishop John Ponet.

An early statement appeared in Discourse of the Common Wealth of this Realm of England, 1549: " We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them.

Finally, in 1549, Cornishmen rose once again in rebellion when the staunchly Protestant Edward VI tried to impose a new Prayer Book.

The original book, published in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome.

The work of 1549 was the first prayer book to include the complete forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English.

The 1549 book was soon succeeded by a more reformed revision in 1552 under the same editorial hand, that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.

She herself died in 1558, and in 1559 Elizabeth I reintroduced the 1552 book with a few modifications to make it acceptable to more traditionally minded worshippers, notably the inclusion of the words of administration from the 1549 Communion Service alongside those of 1552.

Cranmer's Prayer book of 1549.

Further developed, and fully translated into English, this Communion service was included, one year later, in 1549, in a full prayer book, set out with daily offices, readings for Sundays and Holy Days, the Communion Service, Public Baptism, of Confirmation, of Matrimony, The Visitation of the Sick, At a Burial and the Ordinal ( added in 1550 ).

The Communion service of 1549 maintained the format of distinct rites of Consecration and Communion, that had been introduced the previous year ; but with the Latin rite of the Mass ( chiefly following the familiar structure in the Use of Sarum ), translated into English.

The 1549 book then dispensed with the Latin, and with all non-biblical readings ; and established a rigorously biblical cycle of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer ( set according to the calendar year, rather than the ecclesiastical year ) and a Psalter to be read consecutively throughout each month.

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.

The policy of incremental reform was now unveiled: more Roman Catholic practices were now excised, as doctrines had in 1549 been subtly changed.

The Elevation of the Host had been forbidden in 1549 ; all manual acts were now omitted.

The words at the administration of Communion which, in the prayer book of 1549 described the Eucharistic species as ' The body of our Lorde Jesus Christe ...', ' The blood of our Lorde Jesus Christe ...' were replaced with the words ' Take, eat, in remembrance that Christ died for thee ..' etc.

Cranmer recognized that the 1549 rite of Communion had been capable of conservative misinterpretation and misuse in that the consecration rite might still be undertaken even when no congregational Communion followed.

In 1549, there had been provision for a Requiem ( not so called ) and prayers of commendation and committal, the first addressed to the deceased.

The general pattern of Bible reading in 1549 was retained ( as it was in 1559 ) except that distinct Old and New Testament readings were now specified for Morning and Evening Prayer on certain feast days.