1566
Contents
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years: 1563 1564 1565 - 1566 - 1567 1568 1569
1566 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works
Year 1566 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 7 - Pope Pius V succeeds Pope Pius IV as the 225th pope.
- March 28 - The foundation stone of Valletta (Malta's Capital City) is laid by Grand Master Jean de la Valette.
- (August 5 - September 7) - Battle of Szigetvár: 2,300 Hungarian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire.
- August - Calvinists destroy religious art in the Low Countries.
- September - Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1566: Stari Most bridge built.
Undated
- Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.
- The first bridge crossing the Neretva river at Mostar (in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) is completed by the Ottoman Empire. The white marble bridge is now known as Stari Most (or "Old Bridge").
- The Spanish doubloon is first made during the reign of Phillip II of Spain.
- Pope Pius IV expels all the prostitutes from Rome.
Births
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Ab urbe condita 2319
Armenian calendar 1015
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Bahá'í calendar -278 – -277
Berber calendar 2516
Buddhist calendar 2110
Burmese calendar 928
Byzantine calendar 7074 – 7075
Chinese calendar 乙丑年十二月初十日
(4202/4262-12-10)
— to —
丙寅年十一月廿一日(4203/4263-11-21)
Coptic calendar 1282 – 1283
Ethiopian calendar 1558 – 1559
Hebrew calendar 5326 – 5327
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1621 – 1622
- Shaka Samvat 1488 – 1489
- Kali Yuga 4667 – 4668
Holocene calendar 11566
Iranian calendar 944 – 945
Islamic calendar 973 – 974
Japanese calendar Eiroku 9
(永禄9年)
Korean calendar 3899
Thai solar calendar 2109
- May 26 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
- June 19 - King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (d. 1625)
- June 20 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1632)
- August 12 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
- September 1 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
- September 18 - King Sigismund III Vasa/Sigismund I of Sweden (d. 1632)
- October 13 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
- November 10 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
- December 11 - (baptised) - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
- December 20 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr (d. 1612)
- date unknown
- Pietro Cerone, Italian music theorist (d. 1625)
- Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (d. 1643)
- Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (d. 1621)
- Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (d. 1636)
- James Sempill, Scottish theologian (d. 1626)
Deaths
- January 7 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (b. 1506)
- February 3 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- March 9 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (b. 1533)
- March 26 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (b. 1510)
- March 28 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat (b. 1486)
- April 25 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri II of France (b. 1499)
- April 25 - Louise Labé, French poet (b. 1525)
- May 4 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
- May 10 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and a botanist (b. 1501)
- July 2 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
- July 17 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
- July 30 - Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)
- September 2 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1529)
- September 5 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
- September 22 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
- September 27 - Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (b. 1490)
- date unknown
- Jacob Acontius, Swiss jurist
- Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (b. 1500)
- Richard Edwards, English poet (b. 1523)
- Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (b. 1530)
- Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai (b. 1511)
- Calvagh O'Donnell, Irish chieftain