1551
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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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| Gregorian calendar | 1551 MDLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2304 |
| Armenian calendar | 1000 ԹՎ Ռ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6301 |
| Bengali calendar | 958 |
| Berber calendar | 2501 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Edw. 6 – 5 Edw. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2095 |
| Burmese calendar | 913 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7059–7060 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4247 or 4187 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4248 or 4188 |
| Coptic calendar | 1267–1268 |
| Discordian calendar | 2717 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1543–1544 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5311–5312 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1607–1608 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1473–1474 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4652–4653 |
| Holocene calendar | 11551 |
| Igbo calendar | 551–552 |
| Iranian calendar | 929–930 |
| Islamic calendar | 957–958 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 20 (天文２０年) |
| Julian calendar | 1551 MDLI |
| Korean calendar | 3884 |
| Minguo calendar | 361 before ROC 民前361年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2093–2094 |
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Year 1551 (MDLI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January–February – Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and Tsar Ivan IV of Russia preside over the reforming Stoglavy Synod ("Hundred-Chapter") church council. A calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code (Stoglav) are introduced.
- January 11 – Ketumati, Burma, is conquered by Bayinnaung.
- May 12 – The National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima (Peru), being the first officially established university in the Americas.
July–December
- July – Invasion of Gozo: Ottoman Turks and Barbary pirates invade the Mediterranean island of Gozo, enslaving all inhabitants (estimated at 5,000 to 6,000) and transporting them to Tarhuna Wa Msalata (in modern-day Syria).
- August 15 – Siege of Tripoli ends with the Knights of Malta surrendering Tripoli to the Ottoman Empire.
- September 21 – The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico is founded in Mexico City (Mexico), being the second officially established university in the Americas.
- October 11 – John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, de facto Lord Protector of the Kingdom of England, is created Duke of Northumberland.
Date unknown
- Persian forces raid and destroy the cave monastery of Vardzia in Georgia (country).
- 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 metre 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.
- 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.
- In Slovakia, Guta (modern-day Kolárovo) receives town status.
- Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia.
- Juan de Betanzos begins to write his "Narrative of the Incas".
- 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".
Births
- January 5 – Jean Chapeauville, Belgian theologian and historian (d. 1617)
- January 14 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Vizier (d. 1602)
- January 26 – Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer, English politician (d. 1616)
- February 2 – Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
- March 9 – Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (d. 1590)
- March 21 – Maria Anna of Bavaria (Archduchess of Austria) (d. 1608)
- March 30 – Salomon Schweigger, German theologian (d. 1622)
- April 9 – Peter Monau, German physician (d. 1588)
- April 30 – Jacopo da Empoli, Italian painter (d. 1640)
- May 2 – William Camden, English historian (d. 1623)
- May 8 – Thomas Drury (d. 1603)
- May 17 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)
- September 19 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
- October 4 – Philip VI, Count of Waldeck (1567–1579) (d. 1579)
- October 8 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (d. 1618)
- October 26 – Charlotte de Sauve, French courtesan (d. 1617)
- November 11 – Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge of Venice (d. 1629)
- date unknown
- Bhai Gurdas – Original scribe of Guru Granth Sahib
- George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1617)
- Fausto Veranzio, 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)
Deaths
- 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 Radziwiłł, queen of Sigismund II of Poland (b. 1523)
- May 17 – Shin Saimdang (b. 1504)
- May 18 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
- July – Adriaen Isenbrandt, 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 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
- September 30 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
- date unknown
- Sagara Taketō, Japanese samurai (b. 1498)
- Katarzyna Tomicka, Polish noblewoman (b. c. 1517)
- Shihaab Ad Deen Ahmed bin Hamzah Ar Rumli Ashafai' "957AH"