1564

Events

• March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public in the penalty of death
• June 22 - Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World
• September 10 - The Battle of Kawanakajima
• Ottoman Turks invade Malta
• Modern pencil becomes common in England
• Spanish found a colony in the Philippines

Births

• February 6 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist
• February 15 - Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer, father of the scientific method, born in Pisa (d. 1642)
• March 9 - David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer.
• April 23 - William Shakespeare, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, later famous poet and dramatist
• September 24 - William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai
• Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic, Bohemian composer, nobleman and leader of Protestant rebellion, beheaded 1621

Deaths

• February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti
• May 27 - John Calvin
• July 27 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
• October 5 - Pierre de Manchicourt, composer

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