1543–1548 – Mimar Sinan builds his first significant architectural commission, Şehzade Mosque in Istanbul. 1544 – King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed...

The 1540s decade ran from 1 January 1540, to 31 December 1549. January 6 – King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort; the marriage...

This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including...

The decade of the 1540s in music (years 1540–1549) involved some significant events. 1540 4 April – Cristobal Morales leaves the position of master of...

Serlio publishes the first volume of his architectural treatise, Tutte l'opere d'archittura et prospetiva, in Venice, putting the classical orders into...

1550–1554 – Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, constructed, the first church of the Italian Renaissance...

Southwestern United States, began in the 1540s. The conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado crossed this region in search of the mythical cities of...

Fontainebleau etchings from the 1540s usually given to Jean Mignon, disseminated the style through Germany and England. In these very fanciful Mannerist...

publications in the 16th century. 1501 Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo...

probably designed by Primaticcio, who painted the oval inset, 1530s or 1540s Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1545–1554 Giambologna...