1551
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Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s |
Years: | 1548 1549 1550 - 1551 - 1552 1553 1554 |
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Year 1551 (MDLI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1551
[edit] January - June
- January 11 - Ketumati, Burma is conquered by Bayinnaung.
- January - February - Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia preside over the Stoglav (Hundred-Chapter) church council.
[edit] July - December
- July - Ottomans and Barbary pirates invade the Mediterranean Island of Gozo, enslaving all inhabitants (est. at 5,000 to 6,000), and transporting them to Tarhuna Wa Msalata.
[edit] Undated
- Russia - Reforming Synod of the Metropolitan Makary: A calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code (Stoglav) are introduced.
- The fifth outbreak of sweating sickness occurs in England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.
- The National University of Saint Mark is founded in Lima, Peru.
- The National Autonomous University of Mexico is founded in Mexico City.
- Persian forces raid and destroy the cave monastery of Vardzia in Georgia (country).
- The Ottomans capture Tripoli.
- In Slovakia, Guta (currently Kolárovo) receives town status.
- Juan de Betanzos begins to write "Narrative of the Incas".
- In Henan province, China, during the Ming Dynasty, a severe frost in the spring destroys the winter wheat crop. Torrential rains in mid summer cause massive flooding of farmland and villages (by some accounts submerged in a meter of water). In the fall a large tornado demolishes houses and flattens much of the buckwheat in the fields. Famine victims either flee, starve, or resort to cannibalism. This follows a series of natural disasters in Henan in the years 1528, 1531, 1539, and 1545.
- Portuguese founds a sugar colony at Bahia.
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1551 MDLI |
Ab urbe condita | 2304 |
Armenian calendar | 1000 ԹՎ Ռ |
Bahá'í calendar | -293 – -292 |
Berber calendar | 2501 |
Buddhist calendar | 2095 |
Burmese calendar | 913 |
Byzantine calendar | 7059 – 7060 |
Chinese calendar | 庚戌年十一月廿五日 (4187/4247-11-25) — to —
辛亥年十二月初五日(4188/4248-12-5) |
Coptic calendar | 1267 – 1268 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1543 – 1544 |
Hebrew calendar | 5311 – 5312 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1606 – 1607 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1473 – 1474 |
- Kali Yuga | 4652 – 4653 |
Holocene calendar | 11551 |
Iranian calendar | 929 – 930 |
Islamic calendar | 957 – 958 |
Japanese calendar | Tenbun 20 (天文20年) |
Korean calendar | 3884 |
Thai solar calendar | 2094 |
- March 21 - Maria Anna of Bavaria (Archduchess of Austria) (d. 1608)
- May 2 - William Camden, English historian (d. 1623)
- May 17 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)
- September 19 - King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
- date unknown
- Bhai Gurdas - Original scribe of Guru Granth Sahib
- George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1617)
- Faust Vrančić, Dalmatian/Croatian humanist (d. 1617)
- Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Christian Orthodox Saint (d. 1651)
- probable
- Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (d. 1605)
- Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (d. 1610)
- See also Category: 1551 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 28 - Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (b. 1491)
- April 6 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
- April 21 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
- May 8 - Barbara Radziwill, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1523)
- May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
- July - Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (b. 1490)
- July 13 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
- August 26 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
- September 30 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
- date unknown
- Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (b. 1487)
- Zofia Szydłowiecka, Polish noblewoman (b. 1513)
- Sagara Taketo, Japanese samurai (b. 1498)
- Katarzyna Tomicka, Polish noblewoman (b. c. 1517)
- See also Category: 1551 deaths.