1561

1561 (MDLXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

1561 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1561 MDLXI
Ab urbe condita	2314
Armenian calendar	1010 ԹՎ ՌԺ
Assyrian calendar	6311
Balinese saka calendar	1482–1483
Bengali calendar	968
Berber calendar	2511
English Regnal year	3 Eliz. 1 – 4 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2105
Burmese calendar	923
Byzantine calendar	7069–7070
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4257 or 4197     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4258 or 4198
Coptic calendar	1277–1278
Discordian calendar	2727
Ethiopian calendar	1553–1554
Hebrew calendar	5321–5322
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1617–1618
- Shaka Samvat	1482–1483
- Kali Yuga	4661–4662
Holocene calendar	11561
Igbo calendar	561–562
Iranian calendar	939–940
Islamic calendar	968–969
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 4 (永禄４年)
Javanese calendar	1480–1481
Julian calendar	1561 MDLXI
Korean calendar	3894
Minguo calendar	351 before ROC 民前351年
Nanakshahi calendar	93
Thai solar calendar	2103–2104
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1687 or 1306 or 534     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 1688 or 1307 or 535

Births

• January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656)
• January 22 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626)
• July 11 – Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
• August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (died 1633)
• August 24 – Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
• August 25 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (died 1632)
• September 29 – Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (died 1615)
• December 7 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
• December 9 – Edwin Sandys, English founder of the colony of Virginia (died 1629)
• Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (died 1602)
• John Harington, English writer (died 1612)
• Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (died 1631)