1566

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

1566 in other calendars

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	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4262 or 4202     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 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 (永禄９年)
Javanese calendar	1485–1486
Julian calendar	1566 MDLXVI
Korean calendar	3899
Minguo calendar	346 before ROC 民前346年
Nanakshahi calendar	98
Thai solar calendar	2108–2109
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) 1692 or 1311 or 539     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) 1693 or 1312 or 540

Events

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)

Deaths