The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559.
Prince of Wallachia for the third time, succeeding Pătrașcu the Good, who has died suddenly.[166]
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An early instance of a remonstrative seppuku, recorded by Ōta Gyuichi in his biography of Oda Nobunaga, was the death of Hirate Masahide on February 25, 1553. A former general, in his sixties Masahide served as personal tutor to the young Nobunaga, whose teenage bad-boy antics are legendary in Japan.