1564

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s
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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 [edit]

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.

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.

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. 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)

January 4 – Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
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)

^ Hart, Martin (1982, c1973). Rats. Allison & Busby. p. 66. ISBN 0-85031-297-3.

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