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 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art – |
| Literature – Music – Poetry – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1566 (MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Contents |
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 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 – Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1566: Stari Most bridge built.
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 Philip II of Spain.
- Pope Pius V 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 |
| Bengali calendar | 973 |
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 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 |
| 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 – 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
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 (b. 1494)
- September 22 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
- September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (b. 1490)
- date unknown