1566 Totally Explained

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Year 1566 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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 Hungarian 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.

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 Phillip II of Spain.

Pope Pius IV expels all the prostitutes from Rome.

Births

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 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (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)

November 10 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)

December 11 - (baptised) - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)

December 20 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr (d. 1612)

date unknown

Pietro Cerone, Italian music theorist (d. 1625)
Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (d. 1643)
Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (d. 1621)
Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (d. 1636)
James Sempill, Scottish theologian (d. 1626)

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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 I of Scotland (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 Henri 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)

September 5 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)

September 22 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)

date unknown

Jacob Acontius, Swiss jurist
Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (b. 1500)
Richard Edwards, English poet (b. 1523)
Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (b. 1530)
Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai (b. 1511)
Calvagh O'Donnell, Irish chieftain
Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)
Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (b. 1490)
Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1529)

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