1551

Years: 1548 1549 1550 - 1551 - 1552 1553 1554

Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav )
• Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England.

Births

• September 19 - King Henry III of France
• Boris Godunov - tsar of Russia

Deaths

• Oda Nobuhide - Japanese warlord. Father of Oda Nobunaga