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Heads of State
Year of the Metal Dog庚戌(at the beginning of earth -Hahn己酉)
Syria: 1861/62 ( the year in October )
- 3.1 First half of
- 3.2 Second half of
- 3.3 Exact date of birth unknown
- 3.4 Born in 1550
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Holy Roman Empire
- March 7: Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria dies. Is succeeded by his son, Albrecht V. The Catholic mannered prince shall convene the Protestants Pankrazberg von Freyberg to Hohenaschau to his court.
- 4 October: Elector Moritz of Saxony begins with the siege of the imperial ban declared in the city of Magdeburg, which refuses to accept the Augsburg Interim.
- November 6: After the death of Ulrich, the first Protestant Duke of Württemberg, is his son Christoph Duke of Wurttemberg.
- The Emperor Charles V convenes a Diet of Augsburg, which will extend to the year 1551 into it.
Scandinavia
Asia
- The Mongol prince Altan Khan leads a campaign against the Ming Dynasty in China and besiege Beijing.
- After King Tabinshwehti has been murdered by Hofangehörigen the Mon in Pegu, fights his successor Bayinnaung to the re- direction of the Second Burmese Empire.
America
- January 6: The city of Valledupar, Colombia today is founded.
Science and Technology
- The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English people ) of the Venerable Bede in the 8th century appears first time in full pressure.
- The art historian Giorgio Vasari published his biographies of outstanding artists Le Vite de ' più eccellenti pittori Scultori ed architettori.
- The French grammarian Louis Meigret published the Trętté de la grammęre françoęze, a French grammar in completely reformed his own orthography. The work triggers massive disputes and polemics.
- Based on the new provincial system from the year 1543 the Saxon Duke Moritz of Saxony, the third school is founded, today's high school St. Augustine to Grimsby. The choice fell on this site, because the bishop of Merseburg, the school founded in his town denied for years stubbornly.
Culture
- The French apothecary Nostradamus begins with the publication of annual almanacs, in which the first prophecies for the year will be printed.
- The first book in Slovene language is printed in Tübingen.
- Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici leaves the Villa Medici La Topaia build on the basis of an older building.
- Codex Vindobonensis
- 1550: The fashion of baggy pants is shortened in Europe for the Knickerbockers.
Religion
After 71 -day conclave will be on February 7, Giovanni Maria del Monte Ciocchi as a compromise candidate to succeed the late Paul III in the previous year. selected. The new pope takes the name of Julius III. of. Meanwhile pontificate stands strong in the sign of nepotism. So he raises in his first consistory of March 30, his adoptive nephew Innocenzo del Monte Ciocchi cardinal.
- In Valladolid, the so-called defense of Valladolid between the Spanish Hofchronisten Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas is the academic dispute, held to discuss the question of whether the indigenous peoples of the New World have a soul or not.
Contemporary maps and views
Born
First half year
- February 22: Charles, Count of Arenberg († 1616)
- FEBRUARY 25: Daniel Sudermann, German theologian and hymn writer
- April 2: William Zepper, Reformed theologian († 1607)
- May 8: John I, Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate -Zweibrücken († 1604)
- MAY 25: Camillus de Lellis, Italian religious founder and saint († 1614)
- MAY 26: Fabian I. of Dohna, Field Obrist and mercenary leader, marshal and ambassador († 1622)
- JUNE 27:. , Charles IX, King of France 1560-1574 († 1574 )
Second half- year
- September 30: Michael Maestlin, German mathematician and astronomer († 1631)
- October: John Davis, English explorer († 1605 )
- October 2: Rodolfo Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit missionary († 1583 )
- 4 October:. , Charles IX, Regent, later King of Sweden († 1611)
- OCTOBER 23: Maria Andreae, German pharmacist, arms and nurse, Hofapothekerin in Stuttgart († 1632)
- OCTOBER 28: Stanislaus Kostka, saint of the Catholic Church († 1568)
- December 21: Giles Hunnius the Elder, German Lutheran theologian († 1603)
- December 31: Henri de Guise, French military leader († 1588)
Exact date of birth unknown
- François d' Amboise, French writer († 1619)
- Emilio de ' Cavalieri, Italian composer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer († 1602)
- John Napier, Scottish philosopher and mathematician († 1617)
- Safiye, wife of Ottoman Sultan Murat III. , Regent during the so-called Weiberherrschaft († 1618)
Born in 1550
- Willem Barents, a Dutch navigator († 1597)
- Henry Barrowe, English Puritans († 1593)
- Henning Brabandt, German jurist, civil captain and ducal Hofprokurator († 1604)
- Levin Buchius, German jurist († 1613 )
Died
- March 7: William IV, Duke of Bavaria (* 1493 )
- MARCH 22: Stephen Wild, German physician (* 1495 )
- December 5: Lorenz Fries, Würzburg fürstbischöflicher Council, historian and chronicler (* 1489 )
- DECEMBER 20: Matthias Greitter, cantor and composer (* 1495 )
- December 21: Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (* 1502)