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Everything about 1551 totally explainedYear 1551 ( MDLI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1551
January - June
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.
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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.
Births
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
probable
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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
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