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Events of 1550

January - June

• February 8 - Pope Julius III
  Pope Julius III
  
  Pope Julius III , born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555....
   succeeds Pope Paul III
  Pope Paul III
  
  Pope Paul III , born Alessandro Farnese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 to his death in 1549. He also called the Council of Trent in 1545....
   as the 221st pope
  Pope
  
  The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
  .

July - December

• July 21 - The Society of Jesus
  Society of Jesus
  
  The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
   (Jesuits) is definitely approved by Pope Julius III
  Pope Julius III
  
  Pope Julius III , born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555....
  .

Undated

• The first grammatical description of the French language is published by Louis Maigret
  Louis Maigret (grammarian)
  
  Louis Maigret was the author of the Trett? de la Grammaire fran?aise, which was published in 1550. This was the first grammatical description of French language....
  .
• The first book in Slovenian
  Slovenian language
  
  Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic languages spoken by approximately 2.4 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia....
  , Abecedarium, written by Protestant reformer Primoz Trubar, is printed in Tübingen
  Tübingen
  
  T?bingen, a traditional university town in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers....
  , Germany.
• Nostradamus
  Nostradamus
  
  Michel de Nostredame , usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a France apothecary and reputed Prophet who published collections of prophecy that have since become famous worldwide....
  ' first almanac
  Almanac
  
  An almanac is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomy data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of church es, terms of...
   is written.
• Helsinki
  Helsinki
  
  Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
  , the capital of Finland
  Finland
  
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
  , is founded by Gustav Vasa.
• Iceland
  Iceland
  
  Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
   becomes fully Protestant.
• Altan Khan
  Altan Khan
  
  Altan Khan , whose given name was Anda, was the ruler of the T?met Mongols and de facto ruler of the Right Wing, or western tribes, of the Mongols....
   besieges Peking.
• The discovery of silver at Zacatecas
  Zacatecas
  
  Zacatecas States of Mexico of Mexico is located in the north-central region and it is bounded to the northwest by Durango, to the north by Coahuila, to the east by San Luis Potos?, to the south by Aguascalientes and Guanajuato and to the southwest by Jalisco and Nayarit....
   and Guanajuato
  Guanajuato
  
  Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. It is named after its capital city, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, which comes from the local indigenous P'urh?pecha language, meaning "Hill of Frogs"....
   in Mexico
  Mexico
  
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  , and Potosi
  Potosi
  
  Potos? or Potosi may refer to:*Bolivia** Potos?, a city, an important mining spot during the Spanish conquest*** Potosi , a German Flying P-Liner sailing ship named after this place...
   in Bolivia
  Bolivia
  
  The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
  , stimulates silver rushes (approximate date).

Births

• January 31 - Henry I, Duke of Guise
  Henry I, Duke of Guise
  
  Henry I, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu , sometimes called Le Balafr?, "the scarred", was the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Guise and Anna d'Este....
  , French Catholic general (d. 1588)
• April 12 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
  
  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was an Elizabethan era courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies, Oxford's Men and Oxford's Boys, and a company of musicians....
  , Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. 1604)
• May 25 - Camillus de Lellis
  Camillus de Lellis
  
  Saint Camillus de Lellis was an Italy monk who founded a religious order....
  , Italian soldier and nurse (d. 1614)
• June - Pomponio Nenna
  Pomponio Nenna
  
  Pomponio Nenna was an Italy composer of the Renaissance music. He is mainly remembered for his madrigal s, which were influenced by Carlo Gesualdo....
  , Italian composer (d. 1613)
• June 27 - King Charles IX of France
  Charles IX of France
  
  Charles IX born Charles-Maximilien, was King of France, ruling from 1560 until his death. He is best known as king at the time of the St....
   (d. 1574)
• July 3 - Jacobus Gallus
  Jacobus Gallus
  
  Jacobus Gallus Carniolus was a late Renaissance composer of Slovenia origin. Born in what is today Carniola, part of Slovenia, then part of the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life....
  , Slovenian composer (d. 1591)
• September 10 - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia
  Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia
  
  Don Alonso P?rez de Guzm?n el Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia was the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada. He was the son of Don Juan Carlos P?rez de Guzm?n y de Guzm?n, eldest son of the 6th duke, and of his wife Do?a Leonor Manrique de Zu??ga y Sotomayor....
  , commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
• September 17 - Pope Paul V
  Pope Paul V
  
  Pope Paul V , born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from May 16, 1605 until his death....
   (d. 1621)
• October 4 - King Charles IX of Sweden
  Charles IX of Sweden
  
  Charles IX , was King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife, Margaret Leijonhufvud, brother of Eric XIV of Sweden and John III of Sweden, and uncle of Sigismund III Vasa king of both Sweden and Poland....
   (d. 1611)
• October 6 - Karin Månsdotter
  Karin Månsdotter
  
  Karin M?nsdotter , was Queen consort of Sweden and wife of Eric XIV of Sweden.Karin was the daughter of the M?ns, first soldier and later jailkeeper and his wife Ingrid, said to have sold vegetables on the square, whose family was peasants in Uppland....
  , queen of Eric XIV of Sweden
  Eric XIV of Sweden
  
  Eric XIV was Monarch of Sweden from 1560 until he was deposed in 1568. Eric XIV was the son of Gustav I of Sweden and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg ....
   (d. 1612)
• December 6 - Orazio Vecchi
  Orazio Vecchi
  
  Orazio Vecchi was an Italy composer of the late Renaissance music. He is most famous for his madrigal comedy, particularly L'Amfiparnaso....
  , Italian composer (d. 1605)
• December 22 - Cesare Cremonini
  Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)
  
  Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino , was an Italy professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism and Aristotle materialism inside scholasticism....
  , Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
• date unknown
• Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi
  Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi
  
  Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi of Jan?w Lubelski was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Hebrew Bible", a 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the Parsha of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat Jewish services#Shabbat services....
  , author (d. 1625)
• Sarsa Dengel
  Sarsa Dengel
  
  Sarsa Dengel was Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Menas of Ethiopia and Admas Mogasa....
  , Emperor of Ethiopia
  Emperor of Ethiopia
  
  The Emperor of Ethiopia was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. The Emperor was the head of state and head of government, with ultimate executive power, judicial power and legislative power in that country....
   (d. 1597)
• John Napier
  John Napier
  
  John Napier of Merchistoun - also signed as Neper, Nepair - named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scotland mathematics, physicist, astronomer/astrologer and 8th Laird of Merchistoun, son of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston....
  , Scottish mathematician (d. 1617)
• Ralph Sherwin
  Ralph Sherwin
  
  Saint Ralph Sherwin was an England Roman Catholic martyr and saint. He was born at Rodsley, Derbyshire, and was educated at Eton College. In 1568, he was nominated by Sir William Petre to one of the eight fellowships which he had founded at Exeter College, Oxford, probably influenced by Sherwin's uncle, John Woodward, who from 1556 to 1566 h...
  , English Roman Catholic martyr and saint (d. 1581)
• Anselmus de Boodt
  Anselmus de Boodt
  
  Anselmus de Boodt was a Belgium mineralogist and physician from the city of Brugge during the European Renaissance. Along with the "Father of Mineralogy", the Germany known by his nom de plume Georgius Agricola, Anselmus is responsible for establishing the modern geological earth science study of mineralogy....
  , Belgian mineralogist and physician (d. 1632)
• Willem Barentsz, Dutch
  Netherlands
  
  The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
   navigator
  Navigator
  
  A navigator is the person onboard a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation. The navigator's primary responsibility is to be aware of ship or aircraft position at all times....
   and explorer (d. 1597)
• probable
• Robert Balfour
  Robert Balfour
  
  Robert Balfour was a Scotland philosopher.He was educated at the University of St Andrews and the University of Paris. He was for many years principal of the College of Guienne at Bordeaux....
  , Scottish philosopher (d. 1625)
• Henry Barrowe
  Henry Barrowe
  
  Henry Barrowe , English people Puritan and Separatist, was born about 1550, in Norfolk, of a family related by marriage to Nicholas Bacon, and probably to John Aylmer , Bishop of London....
  , English Puritan and Separatist (d. 1593)
• Emilio de' Cavalieri
  Emilio de' Cavalieri
  
  Emilio de' Cavalieri was an Italians composer, Record producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance music era....
  , Italian composer (d. 1602)
• Cornelis Corneliszoon
  Cornelis Corneliszoon
  
  Cornelis Corneliszoon was the inventor of the sawmill.Corneliszoon was born in Uitgeest, The Netherlands. His wind-powered sawmill used a crankshaft to convert a windmill's circular motion into a back-and-forward motion powering the saw....
  , Dutch inventor of the sawmill
  Sawmill
  
  A sawmill is a facility where logging are cut into lumbers....
   (d. c. 1600)
• Philip Henslowe
  Philip Henslowe
  
  Philip Henslowe was an Elizabethan era theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his "Diary", a primary source for information about the theatrical world of Renaissance London....
  , English theatrical entrepreneur (d. 1616)

Deaths

• March 7 - William IV, Duke of Bavaria
  William IV, Duke of Bavaria
  
  William IV of Bavaria , was Duke of Bavaria from 1508 to 1550, until 1545 together with his younger brother Louis X, Duke of Bavaria.He was born in Munich to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria and Kunigunde of Austria, a daughter of Emperor Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor....
   (b. 1493)
• March 8 - John of God
  John of God
  
  Saint John of God was a Portugal-born friar and saint, who has become one of Spain leading religious figures.St. John of God was born Jo?o Cidade in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, into a once prominent family that was impoverished but had great religious faith....
  , Spanish friar and saint (b. 1495)
• April 12 - Claude, Duke of Guise
  Claude, Duke of Guise
  
  Claude of Lorraine was the first Duke of Guise, from 1528 to his death.He was the second son of Ren? II, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine and was educated at the French court of Francis I....
  , French soldier (b. 1496)
• May 18 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine
  John, Cardinal of Lorraine
  
  John of Lorraine was a French cardinal , who was archbishop of Reims, Lyon#Religion and Narbonne, bishop of Metz, Diocese of Toul, Diocese of Verdun, Ancient Diocese of Th?rouanne, Lu?on, Albi, Valence, Dr?me, Bishop of Nantes and Agen....
  , French churchman (b. 1498)
• May 20 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu
  Ashikaga Yoshiharu
  
  File:????.jpg was the 12th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held the reigns of supreme power from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan....
  , Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
• July - Jacopo Bonfadio
  Jacopo Bonfadio
  
  Jacopo Bonfadio was an Italy humanist and historian.Born in Garda he was educated at Verona and Padua. From 1532 he worked as the secretary of various members of the clergy in Rome and Naples, however in 1540 gained employment in Padua with the son of Cardinal -humanist Pietro Bembo....
  , historian (b. c. 1508)
• July 30 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton
  Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton
  
  Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton Order of the Garter was a politician of the Tudor dynasty born in London to William Wriothesley and Agnes Drayton....
  , English politician (b. 1505)
• October 23 - Tiedemann Giese
  Tiedemann Giese
  
  Tiedemann Giese was a member of the patrician Giese family of Gdansk. The brother of the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese and relative of Albrecht Giese became Bishop of Culm and finally Bishop of Warmia ....
  , Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
• November 6 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg
  Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg
  
  Herzog Ulrich von W?rttemberg succeeded his kinsman Eberhard II, Duke of W?rttemberg as Duke of W?rttemberg in 1498, being declared of age in 1503....
   (b. 1487)
• November 7 - Jón Arason
  Jón Arason
  
  J?n Arason was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet. He became a priest about 1504, and having attracted the notice of Gottsk?lk Nikul?sson, bishop of H?lar, was sent by that prelate on two missions to Norway....
  , the last Catholic bishop of Iceland
  Iceland
  
  Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
   (executed)
• December 8 - Gian Giorgio Trissino
  Gian Giorgio Trissino
  
  File:Vincenzo Catena Portrait of Gian Giorgio Trissino.jpgGian Giorgio Trissino was an Italy Renaissance Humanism, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian....
  , humanist writer (b. 1478)
• date unknown
• Aq Kubek of Astrakhan
  Aq Kubek of Astrakhan
  
  Aq K?bek Khan , was a ruler of Astrakhan Khanate in 1532-1533, 1545-1550. He was a son of Mortaza beg. He provided a policy against Crimean Khanate and Nogay Horde for Astrakhan Khanate's independence. Deposed by Yamghurchi khan....
  , ruler of Astrakhan Khanate
• Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah
  Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah
  
  Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah was the second ruler of the Sultanate of Golkonda under the Qutb Shahi dynasty. He ruled from 1543 to 1550.His father, Sultan Quli Qutbl Mulk, had established the dynasty and had become the first Muslim to rule over entire Telugu people region....
  , second ruler of Golconda
• Tabinshwehti
  Tabinshwehti
  
  Tabinshwehti was a king who unified Burma in 1539 and known as the founder of the Second Burmese Empire.Tabinshwehti succeeded his father Mingyinyo as ruler of the Toungoo dynasty in 1531....
  , King of Burma (b. 1512)
• Lapu-Lapu
  Lapu-Lapu
  
  Lapu-Lapu was the king of Mactan, an island in the Visayas, Philippines, who is known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spain colonization....
  , Filipino hero