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1542–1549New Spain, Central America [colonization]The Spanish conquistador leader Francisco de Montejo subdues bitter resistance by the Maya in the southern half of the Yucatán Peninsula in Central America. Their resistance causes him to abandon attempts to conquer the rest of the peninsula.
1547–1552Russia, Central Asia [wars]Tsar Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’) of Russia mounts two unsuccessful assaults on Kazan before taking the city and deposing its khan, beginning the Russian conquest of the Tatar lands.
1548Italy, Holy Roman Empire [painting]The Italian artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) paints Charles V on Horseback. The picture commemorates the Holy Roman Emperor Charles's recent victory over the Lutheran princes at the Battle of Mühlberg.
9 April 1548Peru [colonization]The Spanish viceregal general Pedro de la Gasca defeats Gonzalo Pizarro at the battle of Jaquijahuana (Sacsahuaman) and executes him the following day, ending the conquistador regime in Cuzco against the authority of Lima in Spanish Peru.
15 May 1548Holy Roman Empire [political events]The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V proclaims the Augsburg Interim, an attempt at compromise between Protestants and Catholics in Germany. Although clerical marriage and lay communion in both kinds are permitted, and the doctrine of justification by faith modified, it follows Catholic dogma in other matters.


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Ritchie provides a far more complete view of her political career in Scotland from 1548 to 1560, and by using a much wider range of sources than has been usually tapped, demonstrates that the most significant issue during Guise's political career was not Catholicism but the dynastic interests of herself and daughter both in relation to France and to Mary Stewart's eventual claim to the English throne.
Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560: A Political Career by Couvillon, Christine / Renaissance Quarterly
The most recent example is a document made public by the Spanish Jesuit Xavier Escalada, which purports to be a pictorial depiction of the apparitions dating from 1548.
DID JUAN DIEGO EXIST? Questions on the eve of canonization by Poole, Stafford / Commonweal
The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1).
Megadrought and megadeath in 16th century Mexico by Therrell, Matthew D. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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