1551

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s  1530s  1540s  – 1550s –  1560s  1570s  1580s
Years:	1548 1549 1550 – 1551 – 1552 1553 1554

1551 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1551 MDLI
Ab urbe condita	2304
Armenian calendar	1000 ԹՎ Ռ
Assyrian calendar	6301
Bengali calendar	958
Berber calendar	2501
English Regnal year	4 Edw. 6 – 5 Edw. 6
Buddhist calendar	2095
Burmese calendar	913
Byzantine calendar	7059–7060
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4247 or 4187     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4248 or 4188
Coptic calendar	1267–1268
Discordian calendar	2717
Ethiopian calendar	1543–1544
Hebrew calendar	5311–5312
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1607–1608
- Shaka Samvat	1473–1474
- Kali Yuga	4652–4653
Holocene calendar	11551
Igbo calendar	551–552
Iranian calendar	929–930
Islamic calendar	957–958
Japanese calendar	Tenbun 20 (天文２０年)
Julian calendar	1551 MDLI
Korean calendar	3884
Minguo calendar	361 before ROC 民前361年
Thai solar calendar	2093–2094

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

Events

January–June

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

July–December

• 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).
• August 15 – 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.
• October 11 – John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, de facto Lord Protector of the Kingdom of England, is created Duke of Northumberland.

Date unknown

• Persian forces raid and destroy the cave monastery of Vardzia in Georgia (country).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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".
• New edition of the Genevan psalter, Pseaumes octantetrois de David, with Louis Bourgeois as supervising composer, including first publication of the hymn tune known as the "Old 100th".

Births

• January 5 – Jean Chapeauville, Belgian theologian and historian (d. 1617)
• January 14 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Vizier (d. 1602)
• January 26 – Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer, English politician (d. 1616)
• February 2 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
• March 9 – Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (d. 1590)
• March 21 – Maria Anna of Bavaria (Archduchess of Austria) (d. 1608)
• March 30 – Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (d. 1622)
• April 9 – Peter Monau, German physician (d. 1588)
• April 30 – Jacopo da Empoli, Italian painter (d. 1640)
• May 2 – William Camden, English historian (d. 1623)
• May 8 – Thomas Drury (d. 1603)
• May 17 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)
• September 19 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
• October 4 – Philip VI, Count of Waldeck (1567–1579) (d. 1579)
• October 8 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (d. 1618)
• October 26 – Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (d. 1617)
• November 11 – Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge of Venice (d. 1629)
• date unknown
  • Bhai Gurdas – Original scribe of Guru Granth Sahib
  • George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1617)
  • Fausto Veranzio, 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)

Deaths

• February 28 – Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (b. 1491)
• April 6 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
• April 8 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
• May 8 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1523)
• May 17 – Shin Saimdang (b. 1504)
• May 18 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
• July – Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish painter (b. 1490)
• July 13 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
• August 8 – Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (b. 1487)
• August 26 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
• September 30 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
• date unknown
  • Sagara Taketō, Japanese samurai (b. 1498)
  • Katarzyna Tomicka, Polish noblewoman (b. c. 1517)

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