1551

Year '1551' (MDLI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1551

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1551

January - June

★ January 11 - Conquest of Ketumati by Bayinnaung.

★ January - February - Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia preside over the Stoglav (Hundred-Chapter) church council.

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.

Undated

★ Russia Reforming Synod of the Metropolitan Makary: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code. (''Stoglav'')

★ Fifth outbreak of sweating sickness 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 captures Tripoli.

★ In Slovakia, Guta (currently Kolárovo) received town status.

Births

★ March 21 - Maria Anna of Bavaria (Archduchess of Austria) (died 1608)

★ May 2 - William Camden, English historian (died 1623)

★ May 17 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (died 1608)

★ September 19 - King Henry III of France (died 1589)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Bhai Gurdas - Original scribe of Guru Granth Sahib

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★ George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (died 1617)

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★ Faust Vrančić, Dalmatian/Croatian humanist (died 1617)

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★ Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Christian Orthodox Saint (died 1651)

★ ''probable''

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★ Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (died 1605)

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★ Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (died 1610)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 28 - Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (born 1491)

★ April 6 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (born 1484)

★ April 21 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (born 1510)

★ May 8 - Barbara Radziwill, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (born 1523)

★ May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (born 1486)

★ July - Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (born 1490)

★ July 13 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (born 1490)

★ August 26 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born 1516)

★ September 30 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (born 1507)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (born 1487)

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★ Zofia Szydłowiecka, Polish noblewoman (born 1513)

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★ Sagara Taketo, Japanese samurai (born 1498)

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★ Katarzyna Tomicka, Polish noblewoman (born c1517)
: ''See also .''