1551

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s
Years:	1548 1549 1550 – 1551 – 1552 1553 1554

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Year 1551 (MDLI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–February – Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia preside over the Stoglav (Hundred-Chapter) church council.
January 11 – Ketumati, Burma is conquered by Bayinnaung.
April 11 English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland.
May 12 – The National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima (Peru), being the first officially established university in the Americas.

July – Ottomans and Barbary pirates invade the Mediterranean Island of Gozo, enslaving all inhabitants (est. at 5,000 to 6,000), and transporting them to Tarhuna Wa Msalata.
September 21 – The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico is founded in Mexico City (Mexico), being the second officially established university in the Americas.

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.
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.
Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia.
New edition of the Genevan psalter, Pseaumes octantetrois de David, with Louis Bourgeois as supervising composer, including first publication of the hymn tune known as the "Old 100th".

March 21 – Maria Anna of Bavaria (Archduchess of Austria) (d. 1608)
May 2 – William Camden, English historian (d. 1623)
May 17 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)
September 19 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
date unknown
- Bhai Gurdas – Original scribe of Guru Granth Sahib
- George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1617)
- Faust Vrančić, Dalmatian/Croatian humanist (d. 1617)
- Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Christian Orthodox Saint (d. 1651)
probable
- Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (d. 1605)
- Stanisław Stadnicki, Polish nobleman (d. 1610)

February 28 – Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (b. 1491)
April 6 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
April 21 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
May 8 – Barbara Radziwill, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1523)
May 18 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
July – Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (b. 1490)
July 13 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
August 8 – Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (b. 1487)
August 26 – Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
September 30 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
date unknown
- Zofia Szydłowiecka, Polish noblewoman (b. 1513)
- Sagara Taketo, Japanese samurai (b. 1498)
- Katarzyna Tomicka, Polish noblewoman (b. c. 1517)
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