1550
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1520s 1530s 1540s – 1550s – 1560s 1570s 1580s |
| Years: | 1547 1548 1549 – 1550 – 1551 1552 1553 |
| 1550 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art – |
| Literature – Music – Poetry – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1550 (MDL) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Contents |
Events of 1550
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 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' first almanac is written.
- Helsinki, 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).
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1550 MDL |
| Ab urbe condita | 2303 |
| Armenian calendar | 999 ԹՎ ՋՂԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -294 – -293 |
| Bengali calendar | 957 |
| Berber calendar | 2500 |
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 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) |
| Korean calendar | 3883 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2093 |
- 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
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