1564
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| Gregorian calendar | 1564 MDLXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2317 |
| Armenian calendar | 1013 ԹՎ ՌԺԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6314 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1485–1486 |
| Bengali calendar | 971 |
| Berber calendar | 2514 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Eliz. 1 – 7 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2108 |
| Burmese calendar | 926 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7072–7073 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4260 or 4200 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4261 or 4201 |
| Coptic calendar | 1280–1281 |
| Discordian calendar | 2730 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1556–1557 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5324–5325 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1620–1621 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1485–1486 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4664–4665 |
| Holocene calendar | 11564 |
| Igbo calendar | 564–565 |
| Iranian calendar | 942–943 |
| Islamic calendar | 971–972 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 7 (永禄７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1483–1484 |
| Julian calendar | 1564 MDLXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3897 |
| Minguo calendar | 348 before ROC 民前348年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 96 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2106–2107 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1690 or 1309 or 537 — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1691 or 1310 or 538 |
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Year 1564 (MDLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 26 – Livonian War – Battle of Ula: A Lithuanian surprise attack results in a decisive defeat of the numerically superior Russian forces.
- March 25 – Battle of Angol in Chile: Spanish Conquistador Lorenzo Bernal del Mercado defeats and kills the toqui Illangulién.
- June 22 – French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing what is now the United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.
July–December
- July – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson returns to London from his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company.
- September 4 – The Ronneby Bloodbath take place in Ronneby, Denmark.
- September 10 – Battle of Kawanakajima in Japan: Takeda Shingen fights the forces of Uesugi Kenshin for the final time, to a draw.
- November 21 – Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi sails from Mexico. Later, he will conquer the Philippine Islands, founding Manila.
Date unknown
- First recorded report of a 'rat king'.[1]
- approx. date – Idris Alooma starts to rule the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
Births
- January 1 – Šurhaci, Chinese prince (d. 1611)
- February 15 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
- February 26 (baptized) – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (d. 1593)
- March 7 – Pierre Coton, French Jesuit and royal confessor (d. 1626)
- March 9 – David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (d. 1617)
- March 15 – William Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1642)
- April 2 – William Bathe, Irish Jesuit priest (d. 1614)
- April 23 – William Shakespeare, English poet, dramatist, and playwright (d. 1616)
- April 27 – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1632)
- April 30 – Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, Scottish noble (d. 1631)
- May 27 – Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, Italian noble, sponsor of the arts (d. 1618)
- June 11 – Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss artist (d. 1609)
- June 12 – John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (d. 1633)
- June 28 – Cort Aslakssøn, Norwegian astronomer (d. 1624)
- July 6 – Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Countess consort of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (d. 1636)
- August 18 – Federico Borromeo, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1631)
- August 24 – Patrick Forbes, bishop in the Church of Scotland (d. 1635)
- September 13 – Vincenzo Giustiniani, Italian banker and art collector (d. 1637)
- September 24 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai (d. 1620)
- September 25 – Magnus Brahe, Swedish noble (d. 1633)
- September 28 – Sibylla of Anhalt, Duchess consort of Württemberg (1593-1608). (d. 1614)
- October 15 – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1589-1613) (d. 1613)
- October 26 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer and organist (d. 1612)
- November 3 (baptized) – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish artist (d. 1644)
- November 11 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish philosopher (d. 1618)
- November 22 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (d. 1618)
- November 24 – Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, French astronomer (d. 1647)
- December 25
- Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian (d. 1629)
- Nicolaus Mulerius, Dutch astronomer and medical academic (d. 1630)
- December 31 – Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German ruler (d. 1611)
- date unknown
- Daniel Chamier, French minister of religion (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, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Ethiopia (d. 1622)
- Thomas Shirley, English pirate (d. 1620)
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- Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
- Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607)
Deaths
- January 9 – Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (b. 1540)
- February 18 – Michelangelo, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (b. 1475)
- February 19 – Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (b. 1505)
- April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517)
- April 9 – Georg Hartmann, German instrument maker (b. 1489)
- May 2 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
- May 27 – John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (b. 1509)
- June 24 – Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (b. 1524)
- July 23 – Eléanor de Roucy de Roye, French noble (b. 1535)
- July 25 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)
- July 31 – Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1511)
- August 10 – Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyo (b. 1522)
- August 30 – Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (b. 1492)
- October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
- October 6 – Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1518)
- October 15 – Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)
- October 18 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
- December 6 – Ambrosius Blarer, influential German reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland (b. 1492)
- date unknown
- Isabella Losa, Spanish scholar (b. 1491)
- Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (b. 1487)
- Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (b. 1484)
- Charles Estienne, French anatomist (b. 1503)
- Isabella de Luna, Spanish-Italian courtesan
- Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
- probable – Maurice Scève, French poet (b. 1500)
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