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1566

Years: 1563 1564 1565 - 1566 - 1567 1568 1569

Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January 7 - Pius V becomes Pope
• Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years War in the Netherlands.

Births

• May 26 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (+ 1603)
• June 19 - Prince James Stewart, later King James VI of Scotland and King James I of England and Ireland.
• June 20 - Prince Sigismund Vasa, later King Sigismund III of Poland and King Sigismund I of Sweden.

Deaths

• April 25 - Diane de Poitiers, lover of King Henri II of France
• July 1 - Nostradamus, astrologer
• Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire

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