1551

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1551 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1551
MDLI
Ab urbe condita2304
Armenian calendar1000
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Assyrian calendar6301
Balinese saka calendar1472–1473
Bengali calendar958
Berber calendar2501
English Regnal year4 Edw. 6  5 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar2095
Burmese calendar913
Byzantine calendar7059–7060
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4247 or 4187
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4248 or 4188
Coptic calendar1267–1268
Discordian calendar2717
Ethiopian calendar1543–1544
Hebrew calendar5311–5312
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1607–1608
 - Shaka Samvat1472–1473
 - Kali Yuga4651–4652
Holocene calendar11551
Igbo calendar551–552
Iranian calendar929–930
Islamic calendar957–958
Japanese calendarTenbun 20
(天文20年)
Javanese calendar1469–1470
Julian calendar1551
MDLI
Korean calendar3884
Minguo calendar361 before ROC
民前361年
Nanakshahi calendar83
Thai solar calendar2093–2094
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1677 or 1296 or 524
     to 
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1678 or 1297 or 525
August 15: End of the Siege of Tripoli

Events

JanuaryJune

  • JanuaryFebruary Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia preside over the reforming Stoglavy Synod ("Hundred-Chapter") church council.[1] A calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code (Stoglav) are introduced.
  • January 11 Ketumati, Burma, is conquered by Bayinnaung.
  • May 1 The Council of Trent reconvenes by order of Pope Julius III.[2]
  • May 12 The National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima (Peru), being the first officially established university in the Americas.

JulyDecember

  • By July Fifth and last outbreak of sweating sickness in England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the first full contemporary account of the symptoms of the disease.
  • July Invasion of Gozo: Ottoman Turks and Barbary pirates invade the Mediterranean island of Gozo, enslaving all inhabitants (estimated at 5,000 to 6,000) and transporting them to Tarhuna Wa Msalata (in modern-day Libya).[3]
  • August 15 The Siege of Tripoli ends, with the Knights of Malta surrendering Tripoli to the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 21 The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico is founded in Mexico City (Mexico), being the second officially established university in the Americas.
  • September 30 Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi, by the military establishment of the Ōuchi clan, forces their lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned.
  • October 11 John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, de facto Lord Protector of the Kingdom of England, is created Duke of Northumberland.[4]

Date unknown

  • Qizilbash forces under the command of Tahmasp I raid and destroy the cave monastery of Vardzia in Georgia.
  • 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 metre 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.
  • In Slovakia, Guta (modern-day Kolárovo) receives town status.
  • Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia.
  • Juan de Betanzos begins to write his Narrative of the Incas.
  • The new edition of the Genevan psalter, Pseaumes octantetrois de David, is published, with Louis Bourgeois as supervising composer, including the first publication of the hymn tune known as the Old 100th.

Births

Maria Anna of Bavaria

Deaths

Barbara Radziwiłł

References

  1. Steven Runciman. The Great Church in Captivity. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Page 329.
  2. Trenkle, Franz Sales (March 3, 2003). "Council of Trent". Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  3. Badger, George Percy (1838). Description of Malta and Gozo. Malta: M. Weiss. p. 292.
  4. David Loades (1996): John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-820193-1. pp. 180–181
  5. Charles W. J. Withers; Hayden Lorimer (October 27, 2011). Geographers Volume 27: Biobibliographical Studies. A&C Black. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-4411-8011-7.
  6. Jayne Maloof Williamson (1968). The War of the Three Henries: Why?: The Motives Prompting Henri de Navarre, Henry de Guise, and Henri III to Engage in War, 1585-1589. University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. 96.
  7. Constantin Hopf (December 1, 2012). Martin Bucer and the English Reformation. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-72523-244-0.
  8. The Newgate Calendar: "Alice Arden of Feversham"
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