1564

Year 1564 (MDLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1564 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1564
MDLXIV
Ab urbe condita2317
Armenian calendar1013
ԹՎ ՌԺԳ
Assyrian calendar6314
Balinese saka calendar1485–1486
Bengali calendar971
Berber calendar2514
English Regnal year6 Eliz. 1  7 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2108
Burmese calendar926
Byzantine calendar7072–7073
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4260 or 4200
     to 
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4261 or 4201
Coptic calendar1280–1281
Discordian calendar2730
Ethiopian calendar1556–1557
Hebrew calendar5324–5325
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1620–1621
 - Shaka Samvat1485–1486
 - Kali Yuga4664–4665
Holocene calendar11564
Igbo calendar564–565
Iranian calendar942–943
Islamic calendar971–972
Japanese calendarEiroku 7
(永禄7年)
Javanese calendar1483–1484
Julian calendar1564
MDLXIV
Korean calendar3897
Minguo calendar348 before ROC
民前348年
Nanakshahi calendar96
Thai solar calendar2106–2107
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1690 or 1309 or 537
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1691 or 1310 or 538
September 10: Battle of Kawanakajima

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • First recorded report of a 'rat king'.[2]
  • approx. date Idris Alooma starts to rule the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
  • The first Scottish Psalter is published.

Births

  • January 1 Šurhaci, Chinese prince (d. 1611)
  • February 15 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)[3]
  • February 26 (baptized) Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (d. 1593)[4]
  • March 7 Pierre Coton, French Jesuit and royal confessor (d. 1626)
  • March 9 David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (d. 1617)[5]
  • March 15 William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1642)
  • March 20 Thomas Morton, English bishop (d. 1659)
  • April 2 William Bathe, Irish Jesuit priest (d. 1614)
  • April 26 (baptized) William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet (d. 1616)[6]
  • April 27 Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1632)
  • April 30 Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, Scottish noble (d. 1631)
  • May 27 Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, Italian noble, patron of the arts (d. 1618)
  • June 11 Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss artist (d. 1609)
  • June 12 John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (d. 1633)
  • June 28 Cort Aslakssøn, Norwegian astronomer (d. 1624)
  • July 6 Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Countess consort of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (d. 1636)
  • August 18 Federico Borromeo, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1631)
  • August 24 Patrick Forbes, bishop in the Church of Scotland (d. 1635)
  • September 13 Vincenzo Giustiniani, Italian banker and art collector (d. 1637)
  • September 24 William Adams, English navigator and samurai (d. 1620)[7]
  • September 25 Magnus Brahe, Swedish noble (d. 1633)
  • September 28 Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593-1608). (d. 1614)
  • October 15 Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1589-1613) (d. 1613)
  • October 26 Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist (d. 1612)
  • November 3 (baptized) Francisco Pacheco, Spanish artist (d. 1644)
  • November 11 Martinus Smiglecius, Polish philosopher (d. 1618)
  • November 22 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (d. 1618)
  • November 24 Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, French astronomer (d. 1647)
  • December 25
    • Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian (d. 1629)
    • Nicolaus Mulerius, Dutch astronomer and medical academic (d. 1630)
  • December 31 Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German ruler (d. 1611)
  • approximate date Xue Susu, Chinese artist
  • date unknown
    • Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
    • Daniel Chamier, French minister of religion (d. 1621)
    • Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel (d. 1621)
    • Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia (d. 1622)
    • Thomas Shirley, English privateer (d. c.1634)
  • probable
    • Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607)

Deaths

Rani Durgavati
Luís de Velasco
Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora
  • January 9 Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (b. 1540)
  • February 18 Michelangelo, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (b. 1475)[8]
  • February 19 Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (b. 1505)
  • March 27 Lütfi Pasha, Albanian-born Ottoman statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin (b. c.1488)
  • April Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517)
  • April 9 Georg Hartmann, German instrument maker (b. 1489)
  • May 2 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
  • May 27 John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (b. 1509)[9]
  • June 24 Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (b. 1524)
  • July 23 Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, French noble (b. 1535)
  • July 25 Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)[10]
  • July 31 Luís de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1511)
  • August 10 Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyō (b. 1522)
  • August 30 Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (b. 1492)
  • October 5 Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
  • October 6 Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1518)
  • October 15 Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)[11]
  • October 18 Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
  • December 6 Ambrosius Blarer, influential German reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland (b. 1492)
  • date unknown
    • Isabella Losa, Spanish scholar (b. 1491)
    • Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (b. 1487)
    • Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (b. 1484)
    • Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (b. 1490)
    • Charles Estienne, French anatomist (b. 1503)
    • Isabella de Luna, Spanish-Italian courtesan
    • Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
  • probable Maurice Scève, French poet (b. 1500)

References

  1. Giedre Mickunaite (January 1, 2006). Making a Great Ruler: Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. Central European University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-963-7326-58-5.
  2. Hart, Martin (1982) [c. 1973]. Rats. Allison & Busby. p. 66. ISBN 0-85031-297-3.
  3. Rom Harré (1983). Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed Our View of the World. Oxford University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19-286036-1.
  4. Avraham Oz (January 1, 1982). Marlowe. Doctor Faustus (...). Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-137-07982-4.
  5. John Robert Christianson (2003). On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, Science, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-521-00884-6.
  6. Samuel Schoenbaum; Distinguished Professor of Renaissance Literature and Director Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies S Schoenbaum (1987). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-505161-2.
  7. The Herald of Asia: A Review of Life and Progress in the Orient. 1916. p. 88.
  8. Linda Murray (1980). Michelangelo. Oxford University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-19-520163-5.
  9. Thomas F. Torrance (December 19, 1996). Theology in Reconstruction. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-72520-786-8.
  10. "Ferdinand I | Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  11. John M S Pearce (April 24, 2003). Fragments Of Neurological History. World Scientific. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-78326-110-9.
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