1566

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1566
September 7: General Zrinski leads a final charge against the Ottoman Turks at Szigetvár (1825 painting by Johann Peter Krafft)
1566 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1566
MDLXVI
Ab urbe condita2319
Armenian calendar1015
ԹՎ ՌԺԵ
Assyrian calendar6316
Balinese saka calendar1487–1488
Bengali calendar973
Berber calendar2516
English Regnal yearEliz. 1 – 9 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2110
Burmese calendar928
Byzantine calendar7074–7075
Chinese calendar乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4263 or 4056
    — to —
丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
4264 or 4057
Coptic calendar1282–1283
Discordian calendar2732
Ethiopian calendar1558–1559
Hebrew calendar5326–5327
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1622–1623
 - Shaka Samvat1487–1488
 - Kali Yuga4666–4667
Holocene calendar11566
Igbo calendar566–567
Iranian calendar944–945
Islamic calendar973–974
Japanese calendarEiroku 9
(永禄9年)
Javanese calendar1485–1486
Julian calendar1566
MDLXVI
Korean calendar3899
Minguo calendar346 before ROC
民前346年
Nanakshahi calendar98
Thai solar calendar2108–2109
Tibetan calendar阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1692 or 1311 or 539
    — to —
阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
1693 or 1312 or 540

Events

1566 
Selim II becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

January–March

April–June

July–September

  • July 22Pope Pius V issues an edict to expel most prostitutes from Rome, and the Papal States. The edict is soon reversed because of the loss of revenue from the taxation of houses of prostitution.
1566 
The Stari Most bridge

October–December

Date unknown

Births

1566 
Sultan Mehmed III
1566 
King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland
1566 
King Sigismund III Vasa
1566 
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain
1566 
Sigrid of Sweden

Deaths

1566 
Nostradamus
1566 
Bartolomé de las Casas
1566 
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent

References

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