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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550.

Events[]

June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press.^[1]
July 17 – King Edward VI of England gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland.^[2]
unknown dates
- The first book in Slovene, Catechismus, is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his Abecedarium.
- Nostradamus' first almanac is printed.
- The Chinese shenmo fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi is first published in book form.^[3]

Leandro Alberti – Istoria di Bologna
Martin Bucer – De regno Christi
Thomas Cranmer – Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ
Doddayya – Chandraprabha Purana
Louis Maigret – Traité de la Grammaire française (the first grammatical description of French)
Ramamatya – Svaramelakalanidhi (treatise on music)
Richard Sherry – A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
Primož Trubar
- Catechismus
- Abecedarium
The Facetious Nights of Straparola (the first European storybook of fairy tales)
Giorgio Vasari – Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Rosary of the Philosophers

December 22 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died 1631)
unknown dates
- Wacker von Wackenfels, German diplomat, scholar and author (died 1619)
- Zang Maoxun, Chinese playwright (died 1620)
Probable year of birth – Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario (died 1616)

February – Marcantonio Flaminio, Latin-language poet (born c. 1498)
July 9 (probable date) – Jacopo Bonfadio, Italian historian, executed for sodomy (born c. 1508)^[4]
December 8 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian poet, dramatist and grammarian (born 1478)^[5]
unknown date
- Eguinaire Baron, French legal writer (born 1495)^[6]
- William Lamb alias Paniter, Scottish writer, cleric and lawyer (born c. 1493)

^ E. van Staalduine-Sulman (13 November 2017). Justifying Christian Aramaism: Editions and Latin Translations of the Targums from the Complutensian to the London Polyglot Bible (1517-1657). BRILL. p. 98. ISBN 978-90-04-35593-4.
^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
^ Haase, Donald (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: A-F. Greenwood Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 0-313-33442-0.
^ Robert Aldrich; Robert F. Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2001). Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II. Psychology Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-415-15982-1.
^ Caroline Constant; Andrea Palladio (1993). The Palladio Guide. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-878271-85-3.
^ Holthöfer, Ernst (2001). "Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan (Baro)". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 64. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.