1550

events

politics and world happening

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• the first book in Slovenian language should in Tübingen in
• Valladolid finds printed the scholar controversy between the Spanish Hofchronisten Sépulveda and the Dominikanermönch read Casas, over over the question whether the Indios thatNew world a soul have, or not, to discuss.
• Georgius Agricola, George farmer, writes the manual to the mineralogy “De natura fossilium”: Fossils are born remnants of living

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• 2. April: William Zepper, reformed theologian(† 1607)
• 25. May: Kamillus of Lellis, Italian medal founder and a holy († 1614)
• 26. May: Fabian I. of Dohna, Feldobrist and mercenary leaders, yard marshal and envoy
• 27. June: Karl IX., King ofFrance 1560: 1575 († 1575)
• 16. July: Matthia Ferrabosco, Italian composer († 1616)
• 31. July: Jacobus Gallus, composer and singer († 1591)
• 30. September: Michael Maestlin, German mathematician and astronomer († 1631)
• 4. October: Karl IX., King of Sweden († 1611)
• 23. October: Maria Andreae, German Apothekerin, poor and Krankenpflegerin
• 28. October: Stanislaus Kostka, holy of the catholic church († 1568)

• John Napier, Scottish philosopher and mathematician († 1617)
• Ludovico Zacconi, Italian music theoretician († 1623)
• around 1550: Henry Barrowe, English Puritaner († 1593)
• around 1550: Willem Barents, Netherlands sailor († 1597)

died

• 22. February: Francesco III. Gonzaga, oldest son of the duke Federico II (* 1533)
• 7. March: William IV., Duke by Bavaria (* 1493)
• 5. November: Ulrich, duke of Württemberg (* 1487)
• 5. December: Lorenz Fries, peppering citizens fürstbischöflicher advice, historian and chronicler (* 1489)
• 20. December: Matthias Greitter, Kantor and composer (* around 1495)