1566

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The Stari Most bridge is built.

Selim II

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

Events

January–June

• January 7 – Pope Pius V succeeds Pope Pius IV as the 225th pope.
• March 28 – The foundation stone of Valletta, which will become Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• April 5 – The Compromise of Nobles is presented to Margaret of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, but succeeds only in delaying the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.

July–December

• August 5 – The Siege of Szigetvár is begun by Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• August 10 – Beeldenstorm: Outbreak of destruction by Calvinists of religious art in the Low Countries.^[1] On August 25 it reaches Leiden.
• September 7 – Suleiman the Magnificent dies in his tent at the Siege of Szigetvár and Selim II succeeds him as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• September 8 – The Siege of Szigetvár ends in battle with 2,300 Hungarian and Croatian defenders including their general, Nikola Šubić Zrinski, annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire under Sokollu Mehmed Pasha.

December

• The Spanish gold escudo, worth 16 silver reales, is first minted during the reign of Philip II of Spain.
• Pope Pius V expels most prostitutes from Rome, Papal States.
• Between July 19, 1566 and July 7, 1567 – The first bridge crossing the Neretva river at Mostar (in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) is completed by the Ottoman Empire. The white marble bridge becomes known as 'Stari Most' ("Old Bridge").

Births

Blessed Marie of the Incarnation born on February 1

Sultan Mehmed III born on May 26

King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland born on June 19

King Sigismund III Vasa born on June 20

• January 13 – Maria of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess Consort of Saxe-Lauenburg (1582–1619) (d. 1626)
• January 15 – Philipp Uffenbach, German artist (d. 1636)
• February 1 – Marie of the Incarnation, French Discalced Carmelite beatified nun and blessed (d. 1618)
• February 18 – Francesco Erizzo, Doge of Venice (d. 1646)
• March 1 – John Hoskins, English poet (d. 1638)
• March 30 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian music composer (d. 1613)
• April 2 – Bartholda van Swieten, Dutch diplomat (d. 1647)
• May 26 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
• June 19 – King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (d. 1625)
• June 20 – King Sigismund III Vasa, of Poland and Sweden (d. 1632)
• July 9 – John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, German duke (d. 1638)
• August 12 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
• August 24 – Abraham Scultetus, German theologian (d. 1625)
• September 1 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
• October 13 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
• October 15 – Sigrid of Sweden, Swedish princess (d. 1633)
• November 3 – Charles, Count of Soissons, French prince du sang and military commander (d. 1612)
• November 9 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Lüneburt (1611–1633) (d. 1633)
• November 16 – Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Italian-born Archduchess of Austria and Religious Sister (d. 1621)
• November 21 – Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1645)
• November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (d. 1645)
• December 1 – Philip of Nassau, Count of Nassau (d. 1595)
• December 11 – (baptised) – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (d. 1650)
• December 19 – George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrewsbury, English Earl (d. 1630)
• December 20 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr (d. 1612)
• December 22 – Jan Jesenius, Slovak physician (d. 1621)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Cerone, Italian music theorist (d. 1625)
  • Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (d. 1643)
  • Michal Sedziwój, Polish alchemist (d. 1636)
  • James Sempill, Scottish theologian (d. 1626)
  • Lucia Quinciani, Italian composer.
  • Caterina Vitale, Maltese pharmacist (d. 1619)

Deaths

Nostradamus died on July 2, 1566

Saint Bartolome de las Casas died on July 17, 1566

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent died on September 7, 1566

• January 7 – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (b. 1506)
• February 3 – George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
• March 9 – David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1533)
• March 26 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (b. 1510)
• March 28 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat (b. 1486)
• April 25 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
• April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (b. 1525)
• May 4 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
• May 10 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and a botanist (b. 1501)
• July 2 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
• July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (b. 1530)
• July 17 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
• July 30 – Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)
• September 2 – Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (b. 1529)
• September 7 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan since 1520 (b. 1494)
• September 22 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
• September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (b. 1490)
• October 31 – Zilia Dandolo, Venetian dogaressa
• December 26 – Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai (b. 1511)
• date unknown
  • Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (b. 1500)
  • Richard Edwardes, English poet (b. 1523)
  • Calvagh O'Donnell, Irish chieftain
• probable - Jacob Acontius, Swiss jurist, theologian, philosopher and engineer (b. 1492)

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