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Year 1564 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1564

January 25 - The Portuguese found the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death.
June 22 - French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida.
September 10 - Japan - Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats the forces of Uesugi Kenshin.

Undated

The Ottoman Turks invade Malta.

The modern pencil becomes common in England.

Conquistadors cross the Pacific.

The Spanish found a colony in the Philippines.

The first rat king discovery is reported.

1564 - 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi sails from Mexico and conquers the Philippine Islands, founding Manila.

Births

February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)

February 26 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (d. 1593)

March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (d.

April 26 (baptized) - William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist (d. 1616)

April 27 - Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1632)

September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and samurai (d. 1620)

November 22 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English peer and traitor (d. 1619)

date unknown

William Bathe, Jesuit priest (d. 1614)
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1638)
Daniel Chamier, minister of religion in France (d. 1621)
Henry Chettle, English dramatist (d. 1607)
Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer and Protestant rebel (d. 1621)
Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint and martyr (d. 1597)
Thomas Morton, English churchman (d. 1659)
Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter (d. 1654)
Pedro Páez, Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (d. 1622)
Thomas Shirley, English pirate (d. 1620)

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Deaths

January 4 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)

February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, architect and sculptor (b. 1475)

May 2 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)

May 27 - John Calvin, French Protestant reformer (b. 1509)

July 27 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1503)

July 31 - Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1511)

October 5 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer

October 15 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)

October 18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)

date unknown

Pierre Belon, French naturalist (b. 1517)
Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (b. 1487)
Purandara Dasa, Indian musician (b. 1484)
Charles Etienne, French anatomist (b. 1503)
Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (b. 1505)
Manus O'Donnell, Irish leader
Maurice Scève, French poet (b. 1500)
Rani Durgawati, Regent of Gondwana (birthdate unknown)

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