1566

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

1566 Media

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  September 7: General Zrinski leads a final charge against the Ottoman Turks at Szigetvár (1825 painting by Johann Peter Krafft)

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  Selim II becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

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  Photograph of the original Stari Most (Mostar, Yugoslavia) taken in the 1970s by Josephine W. Baker before the bridge was destroyed. Mrs. Baker has released the photo to the public domain for historical use. MCalamari 16:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

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  King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland

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  King Sigismund III Vasa

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  Isabella Clara Eugenia

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  Sigrid of Sweden

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  The Portrait of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), a French Renaissance Medicine & Astrologer, painted by his son César de Nostredame (1553-1630?)

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  Bartolomé de las Casas

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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.

Births

• 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)