1564
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Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s |
Years: | 1561 1562 1563 - 1564 - 1565 1566 1567 |
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Art - Literature - Music - Science |
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
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Year 1564 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1564
- January 25 - The Portuguese found the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
- March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death.
- June 22 - French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.
- September 10 - Japan - Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats the forces of Uesugi Kenshin.
[edit] Undated
- The Ottoman Turks invade Malta.
- The modern pencil becomes common in England.
- Conquistadors cross the Pacific.
- The Spanish found a colony in the Philippines.
- The first rat king discovery is reported.
- 1564 - 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi sails from Mexico and conquers the Philippine Islands, founding Manila.
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1564 MDLXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2317 |
Armenian calendar | 1013 ԹՎ ՌԺԳ |
Bahá'í calendar | -280 – -279 |
Berber calendar | 2514 |
Buddhist calendar | 2108 |
Burmese calendar | 926 |
Chinese calendar | 4200/4260-12-18 (癸亥年十二月十八日) — to —
4201/4261-11-28(甲子年十一月廿八日) |
Coptic calendar | 1280 – 1281 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1556 – 1557 |
Hebrew calendar | 5324 – 5325 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1619 – 1620 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1486 – 1487 |
- Kali Yuga | 4665 – 4666 |
Holocene calendar | 11564 |
Iranian calendar | 942 – 943 |
Islamic calendar | 971 – 972 |
Japanese calendar | Eiroku 7 (永禄7年) |
Korean calendar | 3897 |
Thai solar calendar | 2107 |
- February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
- February 26 {baptized} - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (d. 1593)
- March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (d.
- April 26 (baptized) - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (d. 1616)
- April 27 - Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1632)
- September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai (d. 1620)
- November 22 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (d. 1619)
- date unknown
- William Bathe, Jesuit priest (d. 1614)
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
- Daniel Chamier, minister of religion in France (d. 1621)
- Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607)
- Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel (d. 1621)
- Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (d. 1597)
- Thomas Morton, English churchman (d. 1659)
- Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (d. 1654)
- Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (d. 1622)
- Thomas Shirley, English pirate (d. 1620)
- See also Category: 1564 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
- February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (b. 1475)
- May 2 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
- May 27 - John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (b. 1509)
- July 27 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)
- July 31 - Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1511)
- October 5 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
- October 15 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)
- October 18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
- date unknown
- Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517)
- Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (b. 1487)
- Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (b. 1484)
- Charles Etienne, French anatomist (b. 1503)
- Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (b. 1505)
- Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
- Maurice Scève, French poet (b. 1500)
- Rani Durgawati, Regent of Gondwana (birthdate unknown)
- See also Category: 1564 deaths.