1564

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

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Events of 1564

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1564

★ January 25 - Portuguese founded the city of São Paulo, in Brazil

★ March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death.

★ June 22 - French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.

★ September 10 - The Battle of Kawanakajima occurs.

Undated

★ Ottoman Turks invade Malta.

★ Modern pencil becomes common in England.

★ Conquistadors crossed the Pacific.

★ Spanish founded a colony in the Philippines.

★ First rat king discovery reported.

Births

★ February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1642)

★ February 26 {baptized} - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (died 1593)

★ March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1617)

★ April 26 (baptized) - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (died 1616)

★ April 27 - Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (died 1632)

★ September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai (died 1620)

★ November 22 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (died 1619)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Bathe, Jesuit priest (died 1614)

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★ Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1638)

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★ Daniel Chamier, minister of religion in France (died 1621)

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★ Henry Chettle, English dramatist (died 1607)

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★ Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel (beheaded 1621)

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★ Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (died 1597)

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★ Thomas Morton, English churchman (died 1659)

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★ Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (died 1654)

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★ Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (died 1622)

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★ Thomas Shirley, English pirate (died 1620)
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Deaths

★ January 4 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)

★ February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist and architect (born 1475)

★ May 2 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)

★ May 27 - John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (born 1509)

★ July 27 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1503)

★ July 31 - Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (born 1511)

★ October 5 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer

★ October 15 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (born 1514)

★ October 18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (born 1520)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Pierre Belon, French naturalist (born 1517)

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★ Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (born 1487)

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★ Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (born1484)

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★ Charles Etienne, French anatomist (born 1503)

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★ Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (born 1505)

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★ Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader

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★ Maurice Scève, French poet (born 1500)

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★ Rani Durgawati, Regent of Gondwana (birthdate unknown)
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