Year 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
Undated
- 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
- See also Category: 1551 births.
Deaths
- See also Category: 1551 deaths.
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