1564
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
1564 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1564 MDLXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2317 |
Armenian calendar | 1013 ԹՎ ՌԺԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6314 |
Bahá'í calendar | −280 – −279 |
Bengali calendar | 971 |
Berber calendar | 2514 |
English Regnal year | 6 Eliz. 1 – 7 Eliz. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2108 |
Burmese calendar | 926 |
Byzantine calendar | 7072–7073 |
Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4260 or 4200 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4261 or 4201 |
Coptic calendar | 1280–1281 |
Discordian calendar | 2730 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1556–1557 |
Hebrew calendar | 5324–5325 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1620–1621 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1486–1487 |
- Kali Yuga | 4665–4666 |
Holocene calendar | 11564 |
Igbo calendar | 564–565 |
Iranian calendar | 942–943 |
Islamic calendar | 971–972 |
Japanese calendar | Eiroku 7 (永禄7年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 1564 MDLXIV |
Korean calendar | 3897 |
Minguo calendar | 348 before ROC 民前348年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2107 |
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Year 1564 (MDLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 26 – Battle of Ula (Livonian War): A Lithuanian surprise attack results in a decisive defeat of the numerically superior Russian forces.
- March 25 – Battle of Angol in Chile: Spanish Conquistador Lorenzo Bernal del Mercado defeats and kills the toqui Illangulién.
- June 22 – French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing what is now the United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.
July–December
- September 10 – Battle of Kawanakajima in Japan: Takeda Shingen fights the forces of Uesugi Kenshin for the final time.
- November 21 – Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi sails from Mexico. Later, he will conquer the Philippine Islands, founding Manila.
Date unknown
- First recorded report of a 'rat king'.[1]
- approx. date – Idris Alooma starts to rule the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
Births
- 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. 1617)
- April 26 (baptized) – William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist. Believed to be born on April 23 (d. 1616)
- April 27 – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1632)
- September 24 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai (d. 1620)
- November – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (d. 1654)
- November 22 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (d. 1619)
- date unknown
- William Bathe, Jesuit priest (d. 1614)
- Daniel Chamier, minister of religion in France (d. 1621)
- 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)
- Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (d. 1622)
- Thomas Shirley, English pirate (d. 1620)
- probable
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
- Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607)
Deaths
- January 4 – Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
- January 25 – Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (b. 1540)
- February 18 – Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (b. 1475)
- February 19 – Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (b. 1505)
- April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517) (murdered)
- May 2 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
- May 27 – John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (b. 1509)
- July 25 – 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
- Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (b. 1487)
- Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (b. 1484)
- Charles Estienne, French anatomist (b. 1503)
- Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
- Rani Durgawati, Regent of Gondwana (birthdate unknown)
- probable – Maurice Scève, French poet (b. 1500)
-December 32: Mordecai Seter, Killed by England for the crime of stealing dogs and making perfume of them called the Dunion.
References
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