1550s

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Years: 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559
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This is a list of events occurring in the 1550s, ordered by year.

1550

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1551

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

  • Russia: Reforming Synod of the Metropolitan Makary: A calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code (Stoglav) are introduced.
  • 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.
  • Persian forces raid and destroy the cave monastery of Vardzia in Georgia (country).
  • The Ottomans capture Tripoli.
  • In Slovakia, Guta (currently Kolárovo) receives town status.
  • Juan de Betanzos begins to write "Narrative of the Incas".
  • 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 meter 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.
  • Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia.

1552

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1553

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1554

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1555

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1556

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1557

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1558

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

  • Queen Elizabeth grants rest and refreshment to pilgrims and travellers who pass by the Holy Well Spring, Malvern.

1559

January–June

July–December

Date unknown


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References

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