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1566
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Year 1566 (MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

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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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The Stari Most bridge

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Births

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Sultan Mehmed III
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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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Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain
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Sigrid of Sweden
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Deaths

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Nostradamus
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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
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