1566
year
1566 (MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| Years: | 1563 1564 1565 – 1566 – 1567 1568 1569 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1566 MDLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2319 |
| Armenian calendar | 1015 ԹՎ ՌԺԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6316 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1487–1488 |
| Bengali calendar | 973 |
| Berber calendar | 2516 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Eliz. 1 – 9 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2110 |
| Burmese calendar | 928 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7074–7075 |
| Chinese calendar | 4262 or 4202 — to — 4263 or 4203 |
| Coptic calendar | 1282–1283 |
| Discordian calendar | 2732 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1558–1559 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5326–5327 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1622–1623 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1487–1488 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4666–4667 |
| Holocene calendar | 11566 |
| Igbo calendar | 566–567 |
| Iranian calendar | 944–945 |
| Islamic calendar | 973–974 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 9 ( |
| Javanese calendar | 1485–1486 |
| Julian calendar | 1566 MDLXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3899 |
| Minguo calendar | 346 before ROC |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 98 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2108–2109 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木 (female Wood-Ox) 1692 or 1311 or 539 — to — 阳火 (male Fire-Tiger) 1693 or 1312 or 540 |
Events
changeBirths
change- March 8 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer and murderer (died 1613)
- May 26 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (died 1603)
- June 19 – King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (died 1625)
- June 20 (O.S.) – King Sigismund III of Poland (d. 1632)
- August 12 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
- September 1 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (died 1626)
- September 18 – King Sigismund III of Poland/Sigismund I of Sweden (died 1632)
- October 13 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (died 1643)
- November 10 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (died 1601)
- December 11 – (baptised) – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (died 1650)
- December 20 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr (died 1612)
- Pietro Cerone, Italian music theorist (died 1625)
- Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (died 1643)
- Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (died 1621)
- Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (died 1636)
- James Sempill, Scottish theologian (died 1626)