1550s — in history
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1550
Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile
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1550
García de Silva Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624)
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1550
Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint and nurse (d. 1614)
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1550
Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
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1550
Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631)
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1550
William Drury, English politician (d. 1590)
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1550
The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
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1550
Stanislaus Kostka, Polish saint (d. 1568)
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1550
Karin Månsdotter, Swedish queen (d. 1612)
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1550
Bhuvanaikabahu VII, King of Kotte (b. 1468)
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1550
Veronica Gambara, Italian poet (b. 1485)
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1550
Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (d. 1591)
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1550
Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish admiral (d. 1615)
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1550
Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615)
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1550
Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop and poet (b. 1484)
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1550
Man Singh I, Mughal noble (d. 1614)
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1550
William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
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1550
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English courtier and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (d. 1604)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford · Lord Great Chamberlain
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1550
Charles IX, king of France (d. 1574)
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1550
Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1478)
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1550
Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)
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1550
Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg (d. 1616)
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1550
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1505)
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton · Lord Chancellor
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1550
Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher and author (d. 1631)
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1550
Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1498)
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1550
Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (d. 1626)
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1550
John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b. 1495)
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1550
Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1481)
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1550
Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (b. 1480)
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1550
Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
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1550
Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck and Paderborn (d. 1585)
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1550
Claude, Duke of Guise (b. 1496)
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1550
Tabinshwehti, Burmese king (b. 1516)
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1550
Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
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1550
Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
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1550
Georg von Blumenthal, German bishop (b. 1490)
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1550
Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer
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1551
Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (d. 1618)
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1551
Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi by the military establishment of the Ōuchi clan forces their lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned.
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1551
Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (d. 1622)
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1551
William Camden, English historian and topographer (d. 1623)
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1551
Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (d. 1603)
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1551
National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
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1551
Martin Delrio, Belgian occultist and theologian (d. 1601)
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1551
Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (b. 1491)
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1551
Henry III of France (d. 1589)
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1551
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Grand vizier of emperor Akbar (d. 1602)
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1551
Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (d. 1617)
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1551
Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1523)
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1551
Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyo (b. 1507)
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1551
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
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1551
The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil.
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1551
Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
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1551
Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
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1551
Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
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1551
Joachim Vadian, Swiss scholar and politician (b. 1484)
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1551
Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, English politician (b. 1514)
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1551
John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
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1551
Shin Saimdang, South Korean poet and calligraphist (b. 1504)
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1552
Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1553)
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1552
Muhammad Qadiri, Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. 1654)
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1552
André Schott, Jesuit priest, academic, linguist, translator, editor (d. 1629)
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1552
Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer (d. 1618)
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1552
Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610)
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1552
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
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1552
Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1610)
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1552
Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
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1552
Sengoku Hidehisa, Daimyo (d. 1614)
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1552
Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet and author (d. 1638)
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1552
Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)
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1552
Edward Coke, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (d. 1634)
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1552
Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (d. 1630)
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1552
Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)
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1552
Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (d. 1592)
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1552
Seonjo of Joseon, King of Joseon (d. 1608)
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1552
Jost Bürgi, Swiss mathematician and clockmaker (d. 1632)
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1552
Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
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1552
Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (d. 1607)
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1552
Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer (d. 1623)
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1552
Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
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1552
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
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1552
Magdalene of Lippe (d. 1587)
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1552
John Leland, English poet and historian (b. 1502)
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1552
Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter and educator (d. 1614)
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1552
Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)
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1552
Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
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1552
Alberico Gentili, Italian-English academic and jurist (d. 1608)
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1552
Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
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1552
Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)