1550

Year '1550' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1550

January - June

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1550

January - June

★ July 21 - The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is definitely approved by Pope Julius III.

Undated

★ 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's first almanac is written.

★ Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is founded by Gustav Vasa.

★ Iceland becomes fully Protestant

Births

★ January 31 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic general (died 1588)

★ April 12 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (died 1604)

★ May 25 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier and nurse (died 1614)

★ June - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (died 1613)

★ June 27 - King Charles IX of France (died 1574)

★ July 3 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (died 1591)

★ September 10 - Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (died 1615)

★ September 17 - Pope Paul V (died 1621)

★ November 6 - Karin Månsdotter, queen of Eric XIV of Sweden (died 1612)

★ December 6 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (died 1605)

★ December 22 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, author (died 1625)

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★ Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1597)

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★ John Napier, Scottish mathematician (died 1617)

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★ Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic martyr and saint (died 1581)

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★ Anselmus de Boodt, Belgian mineralogist and physician (d. 1632)

★ ''probable''

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★ Robert Balfour, Scottish philosopher (died 1625)

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★ Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist (died 1593)

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★ Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (died 1602)

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★ Cornelis Corneliszoon, Dutch inventor of the sawmill (died ca. 1600)

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★ Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (died 1616)
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Deaths

★ March 8 - John of God, Spanish friar and saint (born 1495)

★ April 12 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (born 1496)

★ May 18 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (born 1498)

★ May 20 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (born 1511)

★ July 30 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (born 1505)

★ October 23 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (born 1480)

★ November 6 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (born 1487)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah, second ruler of Golconda

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★ Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (born 1512)

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★ Jón Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland, beheaded
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