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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1549.

Events

June 9 – The Booke of the Common Prayer is introduced in churches in England as required by the Act of Uniformity of January 15. It results in a Prayer Book Rebellion breaking out in the West Country.
Sir Donald Monro, Dean of the Isles, produces the original manuscript of the Description of the Western Isles of Scotland (not published until 1582).
unknown date – The content of the Guildhall Library in the City of London is acquired by Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England, for his personal use.

New books

Prose

Joachim du Bellay – La Deffense et illustration de la langue françoyse
Joannes Bunderius – Compendium concertationis hujus saeculi sapientium et theologorum
Robert Wedderburn (probable) – The Complaynt of Scotland

Drama

Johannes Aal – Johannes der Täufer (John the Baptist)
Lodovico Dolce
- Fabritia
- Giocasta (translation and adaptation of Euripides' The Phoenician Women)

Poetry

See 1549 in poetry

Births

March 11 – Hendrik Laurenszoon Spiegel, Dutch philosopher and grammarian (died 1612)
December 24 – Kaspar Ulenberg, theologian and Bible translator (died 1617)
unknown dates
- Pietro Alagona, Italian theologian (died 1624)
- Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Croatian statesman, philosopher and science writer (died 1610)
- Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (died 1626)
- Thomas Stephens, Jesuit writer and linguist (died 1619)

Deaths

January 23 – Johannes Honter, Romanian humanist theologian (born 1498)
January 28 – Elia Levita, Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (born 1469)
March 25 – Veit Dietrich, German theologian (born 1506)
April – Andrew Boorde, traveller, physician and writer (born 1490)
August – Jacob Ziegler, humanist and theologian (born c.1470)
November 25 – Jean de Gagny, French theologian
December 21 – Marguerite de Navarre, French princess, poet, playwright and short story writer (born 1492)
unknown date – Daniel Bomberg, Flemish printer (born c.1483)
probable – Leonard Cox, humanist scholar and rhetorician (born c. 1495)

References

^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 147–150. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 215–218. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Ross, Alexander (1884). "The Reverend Donald Munro, M.A., High Dean of the Isles". The Celtic Magazine. 9: 142–144.
^ Emma Smith (23 March 2016). The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Routledge. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-317-03444-5.
^ Denis Hollier; R. Howard Bloch (1994). A New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-674-61566-3.
^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Kaspar Ulenberg" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Brücke. Društvo književnika Hrvatske. 1993. p. 16.
^ Howard F. Cline; John B. Glass (1 January 1974). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part Two. University of Texas Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-4773-0683-3.
^ Manohararāya Saradesāya (2000). A History of Konkani Literature: From 1500 to 1992. Sahitya Akademi. p. 34. ISBN 978-81-7201-664-7.
^ Hans Joachim Hillerbrand, ed. (1996). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press. p. 240.
^ Hans Reuther (1957). "Dietrich, Veit". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 3. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 699–699.
^ Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France. Ecole nationale des Chartes. 1888. p. 12.
^ A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre. Brill. 2013. p. 16. ISBN 9789004250505.
^ Israel Zinberg (1972). A History of Jewish Literature: Italian Jewry in the Renaissance era. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-87068-240-7.
^ Rob Williams (1852). A biographical dictionary of eminent Welshmen., from the earliest times to the present. W. Rees. p. 84.

[POTD-1] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[CBH-2] Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 147–150. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[CC-3] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 215–218. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[4] Ross, Alexander (1884). "The Reverend Donald Munro, M.A., High Dean of the Isles". The Celtic Magazine. 9: 142–144.

[5] Emma Smith (23 March 2016). The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England. Routledge. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-317-03444-5.

[6] Denis Hollier; R. Howard Bloch (1994). A New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-674-61566-3.

[7] Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Kaspar Ulenberg" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

[8] Brücke. Društvo književnika Hrvatske. 1993. p. 16.

[9] Howard F. Cline; John B. Glass (1 January 1974). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part Two. University of Texas Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-4773-0683-3.

[10] Manohararāya Saradesāya (2000). A History of Konkani Literature: From 1500 to 1992. Sahitya Akademi. p. 34. ISBN 978-81-7201-664-7.

[11] Hans Joachim Hillerbrand, ed. (1996). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press. p. 240.

[12] Hans Reuther (1957). "Dietrich, Veit". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 3. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 699–699.

[13] Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France. Ecole nationale des Chartes. 1888. p. 12.

[14] A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre. Brill. 2013. p. 16. ISBN 9789004250505.

[15] Israel Zinberg (1972). A History of Jewish Literature: Italian Jewry in the Renaissance era. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-87068-240-7.

[16] Rob Williams (1852). A biographical dictionary of eminent Welshmen., from the earliest times to the present. W. Rees. p. 84.