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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| Years: | 1563 1564 1565 - 1566 - 1567 1568 1569 |
| 1566 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1566 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
- 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.
- (August 5 - September 7) - Battle of Szigetvár: 2,300 Hungarian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire.
- August - Calvinists destroy religious art in the Low Countries.
- September - Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Undated
- Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.
- 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 (or "Old Bridge").
- The Spanish doubloon is first made during the reign of Phillip II of Spain.
- Pope Pius IV expels all the prostitutes from Rome.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1566 MDLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2319 |
| Armenian calendar | 1015 ԹՎ ՌԺԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -278 – -277 |
| Berber calendar | 2516 |
| 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 | 1621 – 1622 |
| - 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 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2109 |
- 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 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (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)
- November 10 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
- December 11 - (baptised) - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
- December 20 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr (d. 1612)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1566 births.
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 I of Scotland (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 Henri 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)
- September 5 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
- September 22 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
- 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
- Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)
- Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (b. 1490)
- Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1529)
- See also Category: 1566 deaths.
