Information about 1566
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| Years: | 1563 1564 1565 - 1566 - 1567 1568 1569 |
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- January 7 - Pope Pius V succeeds Pope Pius IV as the 225th pope
- August - In the Battle of Szigetvár (lasting from August 5 - September 7) 2,300 Hungarian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire.
- September - Selim II succeeds Suleiman I as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
1566: Stari Most bridge built.
Undated
- Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.
- The first bridge crossing the Neretva river at Mostar (in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) is completed by the Ottoman Empire. The white marble bridge is now known as Stari Most (or "Old Bridge").
- Spanish doubloon first made during the reign of Phillip II of Spain.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1566 MDLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2319 |
| Armenian calendar | 1015 ԹՎ ՌԺԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -278 – -277 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2110 |
| Chinese calendar | 4202/4262-8-8 (乙丑年八月初八日) — to — 4203/4263-7-17(丙寅年七月十七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1282 – 1283 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1558 – 1559 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5326 – 5327 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1621 – 1622 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1488 – 1489 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4667 – 4668 |
| Holocene calendar | 11566 |
| Iranian calendar | 944 – 945 |
| Islamic calendar | 973 – 974 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 0 (永禄0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2226 (皇紀2226年) |
| Julian calendar | 1611 |
| Korean calendar | 3899 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2109 |
- May 26 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (died 1603)
- June 19 - King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (died 1625)
- June 20 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (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 Vasa/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)
- date unknown
- 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)
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Deaths
- January 7 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (born 1506)
- February 3 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (born 1513)
- March 9 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (born 1533)
- March 26 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (born 1510)
- March 28 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat (born 1486)
- April 25 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri II of France (born 1499)
- April 25 - Louise Labé, French poet (born 1525)
- May 4 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1490)
- May 10 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and a botanist (born 1501)
- July 2 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (born 1503)
- July 17 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484)
- September 5 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (born 1494)
- September 22 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (born 1494)
- date unknown
- Jacob Acontius, Swiss jurist
- Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (born 1500)
- Richard Edwards, English poet (born 1523)
- Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (born 1530)
- Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai (born 1511)
- Calvagh O'Donnell, Irish chieftain
- Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (born 1507)
- Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (born 1490)
- Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (born 1529)
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Ethiopia - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (1563-1597) Kongo - Bernardo I, Manikongo (1561 - 1566) Henrique I, Manikongo (1566 - 1568) Sennar - Abu Sakikin (1557/8 - 1568) Songhai Empire
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Pope St. Pius V, O.P. (January 17, 1504 – May 1 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri, from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, was Pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Pope Pius IV (March 31, 1499 – December 9, 1565), born Giovanni Angelo de Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565. He is generally believed to be the first pope to have died leaving in pectore cardinals unpublished.
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