1564
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This article is about the year 1564.
| 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 | 癸亥年十二月十八日 (4200/4260-12-18) — to —
甲子年十一月廿八日(4201/4261-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1280–1281 |
| 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 | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 564–565 |
| Iranian calendar | 942–943 |
| Islamic calendar | 971–972 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 7 (永禄7年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| 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 [edit]
January–June [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.
July–December [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- First recorded report of a 'rat king'.[1]
- approx. date – Idris Alooma starts to rule the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
Births [edit]
- 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)
Deaths [edit]
- 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)
References [edit]
- ^ Hart, Martin (1982, c1973). Rats. Allison & Busby. p. 66. ISBN 0-85031-297-3.