1564

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years:	1561 1562 1563 – 1564 – 1565 1566 1567

1564 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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

Events of 1564

January 25 – The Portuguese found the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
February 15 – Galileo was born.
March 8 – Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death.
March 25 – Lorenzo Bernal del Mercado defeated and killed the toqui Illangulién in the Battle of Angol, in Chile.
April 23- William Shakespeare is estimated to have been born on 23 of April, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
June 22 – French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.
September 10 – Japan – Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen battles the forces of Uesugi Kenshin for the final time.

The Ottoman Turks invade Malta.
The modern pencil becomes common in England.
Conquistadors cross the Atlantic.
The Spanish found a colony in the Philippines.
The first rat king (folklore) discovery is reported.
1564 – 1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi sails from Mexico and conquers 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 27 – 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)