1566

This article is about the year 1566.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1563 1564 1565 – 1566 – 1567 1568 1569

1566 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1566 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1566 MDLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2319
Armenian calendar	1015 ԹՎ ՌԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6316
Bahá'í calendar	-278–-277
Bengali calendar	973
Berber calendar	2516
English Regnal year	8 Eliz. 1 – 9 Eliz. 1
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	1622–1623
- 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
Minguo calendar	346 before ROC 民前346年
Thai solar calendar	2109

The Stari Most bridge is built.

Year 1566 (MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• 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.

July–December

• August 5–September 7 – Battle of Szigetvár: 2,300 Hungarian and Croatian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire.
• August – Calvinists destroy religious art in the Low Countries.
• September 6 – Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Date unknown

• Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.
• The Spanish doubloon is first minted during the reign of Philip II of Spain.
• Pope Pius V expels most the prostitutes from Rome.
• Between July 19, 1566 and July 7, 1567 – 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 ("Old Bridge").

Births

• 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 – King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland and Sweden (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)
• December 11 – (baptised) – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
• December 20 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr (d. 1612)
• March 8 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian music composer (d. 1611)
• 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, Queen of Scots (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 Henry 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 since 1520 (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