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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s - 1550s - 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s
Years: 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 - 1556 - 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561
[edit] Events
- January 23 - Most devastating recorded earthquake in Shaanxi, China. Over 850,000 deaths.
[edit] Births
- January 8 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1623)
- February 21 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615)
- March 7 - Guillaume du Vair, French statesman and philosopher (died 1621)
- June 6 - Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche (died 1625)
- November 15 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)
- Henry Briggs, English mathematician (died 1630)
- Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic martyr (died 1586)
- Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese militray commander (died 1583)
- Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese militray commander (died 1583)
- Ahmad Baba al Massufi, Sudanese writer and political leader
- James Melville, Scottish divine and reformer (died 1614)
- Maria of Nassau, second daughter of William the Silent (died 1616)