Timeline July 1551

Events in July 1551 3

• 1535 – 1551 Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1535-1551) Died 14 July 1551, aged 16 Henry Brandon succeeded his father Charles Brandon as Duke of Suffolk and was raised alongside King Edward VI's court as a royal ward. He died of the sweating sickness at Buckden on 14 July 1551. His younger brother Charles died of the same disease hours later, ending the Brandon line of Dukes of Suffolk within a single day.
• 1537 – 1551 Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (1537-1551) Died 14 July 1551, aged 14 Charles Brandon inherited the dukedom of Suffolk for barely half an hour after his elder brother Henry died of the sweating sickness, before succumbing to the same epidemic himself on 14 July 1551. Their deaths on a single day extinguished the Brandon dukedom. Their mother, Catherine Willoughby, survived them both.
• 1551 Ottoman Raid on Gozo Dragut's corsairs enslave the population of the Maltese island Ottoman corsairs led by Turgut Reis raided the island of Gozo in July 1551, overrunning its citadel and capturing nearly the entire population. Thousands of Gozitans were carried off into slavery, devastating the island for a generation. The raid came as Ottoman forces pressed their wider campaign against the Knights of Malta in the central Mediterranean.