What is 1566?
{{Year nav|1566}} {{Year in various calendars|1566}} '''1566''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXVI]]) was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Saturday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == Events == * * * == Births == * [[March 8]] – [[Carlo Gesualdo]], Italian composer and murderer (died [[1613]]) * [[May 26]] – [[Mehmed III]], [[Ottoman Emperor]] (died [[1603]]) * [[June 19]] – King [[James I of England|James VI of Scotland]]/[[James I of England]] and Ireland (died [[1625]]) *[[June 20]] (O.S.) – King [[Sigismund III of Poland]] (d. [[1632]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain]] (d. [[1633]]) * [[September 1]] – [[Edward Alleyn]], English actor (died [[1626]]) * [[September 18]] – King [[Sigismund III of Poland]]/[[Sigismund I of Sweden]] (died [[1632]]) * [[October 13]] – [[Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork]], Irish politician (died [[1643]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], English politician (died [[1601]]) * [[December 11]] – (baptised) – [[Manuel Cardoso]], Portuguese composer (died [[1650]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Edward Wightman]], English Baptist martyr (died [[1612]]) * [[Pietro Cerone]], Italian music theorist (died [[1625]]) * [[Giovanni Baglione]], Italian painter and historian of art (died [[1643]]) * [[Jan Jesenius]], Slovak physician (died [[1621]]) * [[Michal Sedziwój]], Polish alchemist (died [[1636]]) * [[James Sempill]], Scottish theologian (died [[1626]]) == Deaths == * * * [[Category:1566| ]]