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| Years: 1548 1549 1550 - 1551 - 1552 1553 1554 | |
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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)
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
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