Editing 1545 (section)

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* [[Battle of Sokhoista]]: The army of the [[Ottoman Empire]] defeats an alliance of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]n dynasties.
* [[Diogo I Nkumbi a Mpudi]] overthrows his uncle [[Pedro I of Kongo]] to become [[manikongo]].
* In [[Ming dynasty|China]], a large failure of the harvest in [[Henan]] province occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat, and forces many to flee their rural counties; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh.
* In the territory of [[New Spain]] in modern-day [[Mexico]], the [[Cocoliztli Epidemic of 1545–1548]] begins. 
* [[St. Anne's Church, Augsburg]] converts to [[Lutheranism]].</onlyinclude>
* The Italian mathematician [[Gerolamo Cardano]] published a book on algebra, '''''Ars Magna''''', that contained the first published algebraic solutions to cubic and quartic equations.