Year 1551 (MDLI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. January 4 – Luca Spinola is elected to a two-year term as the new Doge...

The Commodore 1551 (originally introduced as the SFS 481) is a floppy disk drive for the Commodore Plus/4 home computer. It resembles a charcoal-colored...

following the siege of Rhodes. The Ottomans first attempted to take Malta in 1551 but failed. In 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Sultan, made a...

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The Italian War of 1551–1559 began when Henry II of France declared war against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V with the intent of recapturing parts of Italy...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1551. June 27 – Edict of Châteaubriant prohibits possessing any books listed on...

The Temryuk War or Crimean-Circassian War of 1551–1556 was a military conflict between the Crimean Khanate and the Kabardian Principality. Kabardian prince...

de Sesse was an Aragonese Hospitaller knight who was Governor of Gozo in 1551, when the island was invaded by the Ottoman Empire. De Sesse was in command...

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was made a Knight of the Garter by Edward VI, King of England, in April 1551. By 19 July, after some lengthy haggling concerning the dowry, a betrothal...

invasion of the island of Gozo, then part of Hospitaller Malta, in July 1551. The attack, which was led by Sinan Pasha, Salah Rais and Dragut, appears...

sweating sickness occurred in 1508, 1517, and 1528, with the last outbreak in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. The onset of symptoms was sudden...

Campo (died 1551) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (1516–1551) and Titular Bishop of Utica (1516–1551). Pedro del...

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England during the minority years of Mary, Queen of Scots between 1543 and 1551 is known as the Rough Wooing. In 1560, the Treaty of Edinburgh brought an...

William Gerard (c. 1551–1609), of Harrow, Middlesex, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1593....

first recorded commedia dell'arte performances came from Rome as early as 1551. Female roles were played by women, documented as early as the 1560s, making...

The Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1551–1562 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy supported by Royal Hungary. During the war, the...

Maria Anna of Bavaria (German: Maria Anna von Bayern) (21 March 1551, Munich – 29 April 1608, Graz) was a politically active Archduchess of Austria by...

William Layton (by 1514 – 1551 or 1552), of Harrow, Middlesex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lichfield...

The siege of Tripoli occurred in 1551 when the Ottoman Turks and Barbary pirates besieged and vanquished the Knights of Malta in the Red Castle of Tripoli...

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Edward Bonaventure was an English ship under the command of Richard Chancellor that was forced to seek shelter in 1553 on the north coast of Russia near...

Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland Siblings Henri, Duke of Beaumont (1551–1553) Louis, Count of Marle (1555–1557) Madeleine (1556) Catherine, Duchess...

Events from the year 1551 in art. Cristóvão Lopes succeeds his father Gregório Lopes as the royal painter of King John III of Portugal Pieter Aertsen –...

Catherine-Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Montpensier (18 July 1551 – 5 May 1596), was a French princess from the house of Guise who played a leading political...

of Spain in the absence of her father Emperor Charles V from 1548 until 1551 and was one of the most powerful empresses of the Holy Roman Empire. Maria...

significant 1⁄3rd reduction in the bullion content of each pound sterling in 1551. The troy ounce of sterling silver was henceforth raised in price by 50%...

Hooper's imprisonment, and he eventually gave in. He was consecrated on 8 March 1551 according to the ordinal and preached before the King in his episcopal garments...