1564

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:
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Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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Year 1564 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] 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.

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.
1564 - 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi sails from Mexico and conquers Philippine islands. He founds Manila.

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
- William Bathe, Jesuit priest (died 1614)
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1638)
- Daniel Chamier, minister of religion in France (died 1621)
- Henry Chettle, English dramatist (died 1607)
- Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel (beheaded 1621)
- Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (died 1597)
- Thomas Morton, English churchman (died 1659)
- Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (died 1654)
- Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (died 1622)
- Thomas Shirley, English pirate (died 1620)

See also Category: 1564 births.

January 4 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (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
- Pierre Belon, French naturalist (born 1517)
- Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (born 1487)
- Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (born1484)
- Charles Etienne, French anatomist (born 1503)
- Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (born 1505)
- Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
- Maurice Scève, French poet (born 1500)
- Rani Durgawati, Regent of Gondwana (birthdate unknown)

See also Category: 1564 deaths.