This article is about the year 1550.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s |
Years: | 1547 1548 1549 – 1550 – 1551 1552 1553 |
1550 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Lists of leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
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Gregorian calendar | 1550 MDL |
Ab urbe condita | 2303 |
Armenian calendar | 999 ԹՎ ՋՂԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6300 |
Bahá'í calendar | -294–-293 |
Bengali calendar | 957 |
Berber calendar | 2500 |
English Regnal year | 3 Edw. 6 – 4 Edw. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 2094 |
Burmese calendar | 912 |
Byzantine calendar | 7058–7059 |
Chinese calendar | 己酉年十二月十四日 (4186/4246-12-14) — to —
庚戌年十一月廿四日(4187/4247-11-24) |
Coptic calendar | 1266–1267 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1542–1543 |
Hebrew calendar | 5310–5311 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1606–1607 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1472–1473 |
- Kali Yuga | 4651–4652 |
Holocene calendar | 11550 |
Iranian calendar | 928–929 |
Islamic calendar | 956–957 |
Japanese calendar | Tenbun 19 (天文19年) |
Julian calendar | 1550 MDL |
Korean calendar | 3883 |
Minguo calendar | 362 before ROC 民前362年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2093 |
Year 1550 (MDL) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 6 – Spanish Captain Hernando de Santana founds the city of Valledupar in what is now Colombian territory.
- February 8 – Pope Julius III succeeds Pope Paul III as the 221st pope.
July–December
- July 21 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is approved by Pope Julius III.
Date unknown
- The first grammatical description of the French language is published by Louis Maigret.
- The first book in Slovenian, Abecedarium, written by Protestant reformer Primoz Trubar, is printed in Tübingen, Germany.
- Nostradamus' first almanac is written.
- Helsinki, later the capital of Finland, is founded by Gustav Vasa.
- Iceland becomes fully Protestant.
- Altan Khan besieges Peking.
- The discovery of silver at Zacatecas and Guanajuato in Mexico, and Potosí in Bolivia, stimulates silver rushes (approximate date).
- John Dee finishes his studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Births
- January 31 – Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic general (d. 1588)
- April 12 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. 1604)
- May 25 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier and nurse (d. 1614)
- June – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (d. 1613)
- June 27 – King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
- July 3 – Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (d. 1591)
- September 10 – Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
- September 17 – Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
- October 4 – King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
- October 6 – Karin Månsdotter, queen of Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1612)
- December 6 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (d. 1605)
- December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
- date unknown
- Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, author (d. 1625)
- Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1597)
- John Napier, Scottish mathematician (d. 1617)
- Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic martyr and saint (d. 1581)
- Anselmus de Boodt, Belgian mineralogist and physician (d. 1632)
- Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator and explorer (d. 1597)
- probable
- Robert Balfour, Scottish philosopher (d. 1625)
- Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist (d. 1593)
- Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (d. 1602)
- Cornelis Corneliszoon, Dutch inventor of the sawmill (d. c. 1600)
- Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (d. 1616)
Deaths
- March 7 – William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
- March 8 – John of God, Spanish friar and saint (b. 1495)
- April 12 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (b. 1496)
- May 18 – John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)
- May 20 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
- July – Jacopo Bonfadio, historian (b. c. 1508)
- July 30 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
- October 23 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
- November 6 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
- November 7 – Jón Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland (executed)
- December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, humanist writer (b. 1478)
- date unknown
- Aq Kubek of Astrakhan, ruler of Astrakhan Khanate
- Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah, second ruler of Golconda
- Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (b. 1512)