Events

• 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.
• Foundation of the National University of Saint Mark in Lima, Peru.
• Foundation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.
• Persians raided and destroyed the cave monastery of Vardzia in Georgia
• The Ottomans captured Tripoli.
• In Slovakia, Guta (currently Kolárovo) received town status.

Births

• January 14 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 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)
• George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (died 1617)
• Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (died 1605)
• Stanislaw Stadnicki, Polish nobleman
• Faust Vrančić, Dalmatian/Croatian humanist (died 1617)

See also Category: 1551 births.

Deaths

• April 6 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
• April 21 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (born 1510)
• July 13 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat
• August 26 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (born 1516)
• September 30 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (born 1507)
• Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter
• Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (born 1491)
• Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (born 1487)
• Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (born 1490)
• Barbara Radziwill, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (born 1523)
• Zofia Szydlowiecka, Polish noblewoman (born 1513)
• Sagara Taketo, Japanese samurai
• Katarzyna Tomicka, Polish noblewoman

See also Category: 1551 deaths.

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