In the year 1551, the first officially established university in the Americas, the National University of San Marcos, is founded in Lima (May 12), Ottoman Turks and Barbary pirates invade the island of Gozo (Malta), enslave all inhabitants and transport them to the modern-day Libya (Jul), the Siege of Tripoli ends as the Knights of Malta surrender the town to the Ottoman Empire (Aug 15), Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia - and all these fine people were born:
1551-0105 Jean Chapeauville* Belgian theologian/historian - Liège, Prince-Bishopric of Liège (1617/66)
1551-0114 Abu’l-Fazl ibn Mubarak* grand vizier of the Mughal emperor Akbar - Agra, Mughal Empire (1602/51)
1551-0202 Nicolaus Reimers* German mathematician/astronomer - Hennstedt, Schleswig-Holstein (1600/49)
1551-0309 Alessandro Alberti* Italian painter - Sansepolcro (1596/45)
1551-0321 Maria Anna of Bavaria* Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Archduke Charles II of Austria - Munich, Duchy of Bavaria (1608/57)
1551-0330 Salomon Schweigger* theologian/anthropologist/orientalist who translated Koran into German – Haigerloch, Germany (1622/71)
1551-0409 Peter Monau* German court physician of Emperor Rudolph II - Breslau, Principality of Breslau (1588/37)
1551-0430 Jacopo da Empoli* Italian painter - Florence, Republic of Florence (1640/89)
1551-0502 William Camden* historian/ topographer (Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland) - London, England (1623/72)
1551-0508 Thomas Drury* government informer/swindler - Hawstead, Suffolk, England (1603/52)
1551-0517 Martin Delrio* Dutch Jesuit theologian - Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands (1608/57)
1551-0828 Václav Budovec z Budova* Bohemian reformer/writer/diplomat - Janovičky (1621/69)
1551-0917 Anna Erika von Waldeck* German abbess - Korbach, Hesse (1611/60)
1551-0919 Henry III of France* son of King Henry II of France - Château de Fontainebleau, Kingdom of France (1589/37)
1551-1008 Giulio Caccini* singer/ composer/one of the founders of the genre of opera - Rome, Papal States (1618/67)
1551-1026 Charlotte de Sauve* noblewoman/ mistress of King Henry of Navarre (later King Henry IV of France)/member of the “Flying Squadron” - Kingdom of France (1617/65)
1551-1111 Giovanni I Cornaro* the 96th Doge of Venice - Venice, Republic of Venice (1629/78)
Updated 19.2.2023
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