1566

This article is about the year 1566.

Year 1566 (MDLXVI) was a common year starting on

The Stari Most bridge is built.

Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian

calendar.

1 Events

1.1 JanuaryJune
January 7 Pope Pius V succeeds Pope Pius IV as Selim II
the 225th pope.

March 28 The foundation stone of Valletta, which September 7 Suleiman the Magnicent dies in his
will become Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean tent at the Siege of Szigetvr and Selim II succeeds
Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign him as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Military Order of Malta.
September 8 The Siege of Szigetvr ends in bat-
April 5 The Compromise of Nobles is presented tle with 2,300 Hungarian and Croatian defenders in-
to Margaret of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg cluding their general, Nikola ubi Zrinski, annihi-
Netherlands, but succeeds only in delaying the be- lated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman
ginning of the Eighty Years War in the Netherlands. Empire under Sokollu Mehmed Pasha.

1.2 JulyDecember 1.3 December

The Spanish gold escudo, worth 16 silver reales, is
August 6 The Siege of Szigetvr is begun by
rst minted during the reign of Philip II of Spain.
Suleiman the Magnicent, Sultan of the Ottoman
Empire. Pope Pius V expels most prostitutes from Rome,
Papal States.
August 10 Beeldenstorm: Outbreak of destruction
by Calvinists of religious art in the Low Countries.[1] Between July 19, 1566 and July 7, 1567 The
On August 25 it reaches Leiden. rst bridge crossing the Neretva river at Mostar (in

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modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) is completed

by the Ottoman Empire. The white marble bridge
becomes known as 'Stari Most' (Old Bridge).

2 Births

Sultan Mehmed III born on May 26

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)
July 9 John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Ger-
man duke (d. 1638)
August 12 Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain
(d. 1633)
Blessed Marie of the Incarnation born on February 1
August 24 Abraham Scultetus, German theologian
(d. 1625)
January 13 Maria of Brunswick-Lneburg,
September 1 Edward Alleyn, English actor (d.
Duchess Consort of Saxe-Lauenburg (15821619)
1626)
(d. 1626)
October 13 Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish
January 15 Philipp Uenbach, German artist (d.
politician (d. 1643)
1636)
October 15 Sigrid of Sweden, Swedish princess (d.
February 1 Marie of the Incarnation, French
1633)
Discalced Carmelite beatied nun and blessed (d.
1618) November 3 Charles, Count of Soissons, French
February 18 Francesco Erizzo, Doge of Venice (d. prince du sang and military commander (d. 1612)
1646) November 9 Christian, Duke of Brunswick-
March 1 John Hoskins, English poet (d. 1638) Lneburg, Prince of Lneburt (16111633) (d.
1633)
March 30 Carlo Gesualdo, Italian music composer
(d. 1613) November 16 Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Italian-born
Archduchess of Austria and Religious Sister (d.
April 2 Bartholda van Swieten, Dutch diplomat (d. 1621)
1647)
November 21 Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri,
May 26 Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1645)
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King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland born King Sigismund III Vasa born on June 20
on June 19
3 Deaths
November 26 Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet
(d. 1645) January 7 Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer
December 1 Philip of Nassau, Count of Nassau (b. 1506)
(d. 1595)
February 3 George Cassander, Flemish theologian
December 11 (baptised) Manuel Cardoso, Por- (b. 1513)
tuguese composer (d. 1650)
March 9 David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary,
December 19 George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrews- Queen of Scots (b. 1533)
bury, English Earl (d. 1630)
March 26 Antonio de Cabezn, Spanish composer
December 20 Edward Wightman, English Baptist and organist (b. 1510)
martyr (d. 1612)
March 28 Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian
December 22 Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (d. diplomat (b. 1486)
1621)
April 25 Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry
date unknown II of France (b. 1499)
Pietro Cerone, Italian music theorist (d. 1625) April 25 Louise Lab, French poet (b. 1525)
Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and histo-
rian of art (d. 1643) May 4 Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist
(b. 1490)
Michal Sedziwj, Polish alchemist (d. 1636)
James Sempill, Scottish theologian (d. 1626) May 10 Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and a
Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer. botanist (b. 1501)
Caterina Vitale, Maltese pharmacist (d. 1619) July 2 Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
4 4 REFERENCES

Sultan Suleiman the Magnicent died on September 7, 1566

Nostradamus died on July 2, 1566

September 2 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (b.

1529)

September 7 Suleiman the Magnicent, Ottoman

Sultan since 1520 (b. 1494)

September 22 Johannes Agricola, German Protes-

tant reformer (b. 1494)

September 27 Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet

(b. 1490)
October 31 Zilia Dandolo, Venetian dogaressa

December 26 Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese

samurai (b. 1511)

date unknown
Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (b. 1500)
Richard Edwardes, English poet (b. 1523)
Calvagh O'Donnell, Irish chieftain

probable - Jacob Acontius, Swiss jurist, theologian,

philosopher and engineer (b. 1492)

Saint Bartolome de las Casas died on July 17, 1566

4 References
July 13 Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and trans- [1] Arnade, Peter J. (2008). Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic
lator (b. 1530) Patriots: the Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 103104. ISBN 978-
July 17 Bartolom de las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 0-8014-7496-5.
1484)

July 30 Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b.

1507)
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