1566

events

5. April: Petition of the Netherlands aristocracy at Margarete of Parma around moderating the religion edicts andAbolition of the Inquisition
on Reichstag to Augsburg finds emperors Maximilian II. (HRR) no majority particularly to drive out in the Pfalz gehuldigten Calvinismus from Germany. Furthermore the meeting adopts „Augsburger realm monetary law “, which for longer time stabilityin the monetary system brings
Genova loses the Greek island Chios to the Osmanen
after death Süleyman I. becomes Selim II. (called Central European Summer Time „the Trunkene “) Sultan of the Osmani realm

8. March: Carlo Gesualdo, Italian princeand composer († 1613)
26. May: Mehmed III., Sultan of the Osmani realm († 1603)
19. June: Jakob I. of England (was also Jakob VI. of Scotland) († 1625)
12. August: Infantin Isabella ClaraEugenia, Statthalterin of the Spanish Netherlands († 1. December 1633)
28. October: Burkhard of Erlach, lawyer and yard marshal

Marcus Antonius de Dominis, Mathematiker, Jesuit, bishop von Segni and Erzbischof von Spalato († 1624)

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22. April: Diana von Poitiers, Mätresse von Heinrich II. of France (* 1499)
4. May: Luca Ghini, physician and Botaniker (* 1490)
10. May: Leonhart fox, German Pflanzenkundler and physician(* 1501)
26. May: Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (* 1510)
4. June: Matthaeus Collinus, Czech teacher and writer
19. June: David Rizzio, Italian musician, private secretary and favourite by MariaStuart (* around 1533)
2. July: Nostradamus, French physician and Astrologe (* 1503)
31. July: Bartolomé de read Casas, well-known Dominikaner monk and lawyer in the Spanish colonies in America (* 1484)
7. September: Süleyman I., osmanischer Sultan (* 1495)
22. September: Johann Agricola, Reformator (* 1494)