Editing 1549 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Gaspare Grimaldi Bracelli]] begins a two-year term as the [[Doge of Genoa|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Genoa]] in Italy, succeeding [[Benedetto Gentile Pevere]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Buonadonna|first=Sergio|title=Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797|publisher=De Ferrari|language=it}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] &ndash; An uprising of the Diaguitas natives outside of the South American Spanish colonial city of [[La Serena, Chile|La Serena]] (now in Coquimbo province of Chile) begins. Within a day, the South American village is burned down and nearly every Spanish resident is killed.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=8 December 2017 |title=Crónica del Reino de Chile, Pedro Mariño de Lobera |url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/cronica-del-reino-de-chile--0/html/feec70e8-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_1.html |work=[[Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes]]}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Maha Chakkraphat]] is crowned as the [[King of Siam]] after having been installed on the throne in 1548 by [[Maha Thammaracha (king of Ayutthaya)|Maha Thammaracha]] of Burma.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Ayutthaya - Historical Events - Timeline 1500-1549 |url=https://www.ayutthaya-history.com/Historical_Events15.html |website=www.ayutthaya-history.com}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The [[Act of Uniformity 1548]] is passed by the [[Parliament of England]] and establishes the [[Book of Common Prayer (1549)|1549 version of the ''Book of Common Prayer'']] as the sole legal prayer book in England, replacing the use of different versions of the [[Ecclesiastical Latin|Latin]]-language [[Missal]].<ref>'''Concerning the Service of the Church''' (par. 5) in the Book of Common Prayer 1662</ref><ref>Haigh, Christopher. ''English Reformations'' Clarendon Press (1993) p. 173</ref>
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Burmese–Siamese War (1547–49)]]: King [[Tabinshwehti]] of [[Burma]] begins his invasion of the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]], which ends in retreat.
* [[February 3]] &ndash; Burmese–Siamese War: Burmese viceroy [[Thado Dhamma Yaza I of Prome]] slays [[Sri Suriyothai]], [[queen consort]] of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, on her [[war elephant]], when she intervenes in battle to protect the life of her husband.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The city of [[Salvador da Bahia]], [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]]'s first capital, is founded by [[Tome de Sousa]].